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...Back Bay would be given four city blocks of the new land, 260,000 square feet in all. A Vermonter, Norman C. Munson, contracted for the job. Work began in 1859. Using two recent innovations, the railroad and the steam shovel, workmen hauled gravel from Needham, nine miles distant, and deposited it in the Back Bay, finishing the task two decades later...
...Suddenly quiet, tired and distant) Yeah. Tell em it don't matter if they can't hear the words. They don't mean anything. I'm not saying anything they don't already know
Understandably, the students I spoke to by and large feel distant from their impoverished countrymen. Poku-Appiah's three sisters all live in London, far from their native Kumasi, married to Ghanaians engaging in things like medicine and building contracting. Omar Rahman '79, from Dacca, Bangladesh, says: "I feel closer to people here than at home--but I'm not at home here either. I guess I'm somewhere in between. Rahman, whose mother is a biochemist with a Ph.D. from Yale and father holds an M.S. as an engineer from lowa, grew up speaking four languages (Bengali, Hindi, Urdu...
...commercial flashes on the screen, a schoolboy is opening a letter from his grandmother. He begins to read, and the scene shifts slowly to an elderly lady in a distant city smiling at a photo of her grandson. A voice-over intones the message: "P.S., write soon." That bit of soft-sell-strongly reminiscent of A T & T's familiar telephone commercials-is now being test marketed in Atlanta, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Columbus. It is part of an experiment by the U.S. Postal Service to boost revenues by getting more people to use the mails. The unusual...
...boil in his own flop sweat. It was those memories-a performer's kinship acknowledged-that informed Olivier's work and, finally, humanized and redeemed his Archie. The recognition of self in the role of Archie and the willingness to admit it are beyond Lemmon. He is distant, predictable and therefore boring...