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...Cambridge Savings Bank] ha[s] floated a proposal and now they're getting reaction to that," Reeves said. "It's very clear to me that Harvard Square is one of the most historic squares in the world. Now Paris doesn't just go tearing down the Eiffel Tower. We have to understand that this is a city with an architectural history and we have to preserve that...
Just like Let's Go, I cater to readers of all ages, socio-economic classes and questionable moral standards. However, unlike Let's Go, sometimes I make mistakes. I must apologize to all my Francophilic readers who were offended by last week's misspelling of Eiffel. I was so enamored with my memories of Jacques, I neglected to use my spell-checker. It seems like I can solve everyone else's problems but my own. Once again, I awoke this morning alone, surrounded by piles of reader mail. I wish I had a "George" like my friend in Leverett. What...
Shame on America. How she has lost her manners in the last century! It's a good thing the French gave us the Statue of Liberty in 1886. Today, we might have melted down the Bartholdi-Eiffel masterpiece and tossed her into a scrap metals heap 10 days after dedication. That's how Americans treat gifts...
...iron matter? Partly for symbolic reasons: it was the common material of industry, old as the smith-god Hephaistos but new as the Eiffel Tower or the Golden Gate Bridge -- "ignoble," vernacular material that, set up beside the "noble" marble and bronze of traditional sculpture, could not but detonate new trains of imagery...
...night, this city comes alive. No more Tour Eiffel, Arc de Triomphe or Notre Dame. No lines of tourists speaking broken French, no hordes snapping away with their instamatic cameras. Paris by night is a complete vacation in itself. You don't have to see the Louvre or the Bastille to enjoy this city of lights...