Word: evelyn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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State Secretary of Economic Affairs Evelyn Murphy officially resigned her post yesterday to "begin forming a campaign team" in her bid to capture the lieutenant governor's seat in 1986, said Kathy O'Donnell, Murphy's press secretary...
...ideal museum show would therefore be a mating of Brideshead Revisited (the only vulgar novel Evelyn Waugh wrote) with House & Garden. It should borrow widely and set forth an impressive parade of authoritative objects, with special attention paid to the decorative arts. It should sketch a portrait of a vanished order without revisionist detail, thus provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had. Its opening nights should be long, socially frantic and attended by as many titled lenders and assorted Chinless Wonders as can be flown across the Atlantic. Royalty should be present...
...project has not succeeded in its original community-oriented goals, shopkeepers say. By selecting upscale stores like Talbots and Laura Ashley, the developers "created the impression that normal people can't shop here," said the manager of Crabtree and Evelyn...
...manager of Crabtree and Evelyn said the lack of overall organization of the development hurts business. "Some people come here specifically for the well-known names, but it's discouraging when you're shopping to see half the stores closed," she said...
...Harvard Square likes noise, food, balloons," said Crabtree and Evelyn's manager. "They claim that they're doing things for the community, but nothing is publicized. There were great jazz concerts here that no one came to. The developers don't want street freaks. It's all because of the snobbery of the people running the show...