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Status and radicalism are not at all contradictory in Boston. At the Merchants Club, Hancock drank and debated with Attorney James Otis Jr., who first argued in court in 1761 against the constitutionality of general search warrants known as writs of assistance (John Adams believes that "American independence was then and there born"). At a Masonic lodge, Hancock encountered both Otis and Samuel Adams, an inept businessman but master polemicist and organizer of the Sons of Liberty. These three soon became leaders in the resistance to the Stamp Act. Declared Hancock: "I will not be a slave. I have...
...drank a cup of strong tea, the rabbi explained that the association of tradition and scholarly pursuits has been an integral part of his life since his Midwestern boyhood. There his father, an East European immigrant, educated himself each night with Bancroft's History of the World while fostering in the boy a "love of learning" of the past and of tradition. The rabbi suggested that his early congregation was an expression of that love but he found that, during the McCarthy era, he would have more freedom working with college students. Consequently he served as rabbi of two college...
...class members drank a lot, Murphy said, considering that most of them are 72 years old. "A lot asked for doubles, and when they asked for martinis they wanted very little vermouth in them," he said...
...They drank a lot of bloody Marys this morning because they were drinking last night," Murphy said...
...drank the most at the 15th reunion," Alfred Thomas '26 said at yesterday's gathering. "Now, we're drinking about the same amount that we did at the 25th. Then, I didn't see anyone who was drunk, but at the 15th I saw plenty who were," Thomas added...