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Already, small minds are opposing Tyler’s forward-thinking proposal on a number of grounds, including the aesthetic. Cambridge Puritans, it seems, have no time for what they characterize as “duck boats” dredged from some military warehouse. Tyler has already made a vigorous—and convincing—case that his planned vessels are not in the least mallard-esque, nor are they warlike. (They are, he contends, merely a transcendent kind of bus, separate from the Patton-era DUKW surplus vehicles familiar to many...
...that aside. The purity of Tyler’s vision is beyond question. So what’s so bad about duck boats, even those that are not strictly duckish? Well, to begin with, there’s the problem of Duck Hunt. Who’s to say that Nintendo-addled children of the early 1980s, so frequent on the College campus, wouldn’t grab gray-plastic rifles and start shooting at the pixellated fowl they imagine they see flying by their newest form of transit...
...courtyard. They couldn’t be worse than Harvard University Dining Services’ weaker offerings, and they would surely keep longer than the delicate, all too short-lived culinary fantasia that is Guiness steak pie. And though Cambridge is not yet ready for the non-duck boats, the option should hardly be, ahem, rivered—with talk of moving undergraduate Houses to Allston in the next decades, Tyler’s may be the murky, polluted Charles-side wave of the future...
...acceptable practice to socialize with Executive Branch officials when there are not personal claims against them. That's all I'm going to say for now. Quack, quack." ANTONIN SCALIA, Supreme Court Justice, responding to a question about his duck-hunting outing with Vice President Dick Cheney, a potential litigant in a future Supreme Court case...
...apparent novelty, Tyler’s idea is not a new one. Cindy Brown, general manager of Boston Duck Tours said that when her company first opened in the early 1990s it wanted to launch a duck boat tour through Harvard Square, but the idea was shot down by residents...