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...most important thing we need to do is to dismantle the BRA,” said Natasha Perez, a spokeswoman for City Councilor Michael F. Flaherty, Jr., Menino’s challenger. “We need separate planning agencies: one focused on planning and one on economic development and workforce development. What tends to happen is that in the rush for economic development, planning and communities are steamrolled...
Jesse Sheidlower is the world's expert on the F word - and that's an expertise that requires more work than you might think. Sheidlower is editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary, and his 270-page book, The F-Word, newly updated and revised, was years in the making. "There aren't that many words that you can write an entire book about, and of those, very, very few of them are ones that you would actually want to read," says Sheidlower. "There's a huge opportunity here as a scholar for something that has been a part...
...F word so powerful that it evokes a frenzy when it's used? What we view as offensive has changed over time and continues to change. Right now we're at a point where sexual scatological terms are considered not really that bad. They still have power but not as much as they used to even, let's say, 50 years ago. The difference is immense. In the past couple of decades, we've seen a real explosion in how widely [the F word is] being used, because people are more comfortable with it and less puritanical about...
...Lady Chatterley's Lover. Norman Mailer using fug in The Naked and the Dead, which gave rise to the famous anecdote that at a party, Tallulah Bankhead - or in some versions, Dorothy Parker - came up to him and said, "So you're the young man who can't spell f...
...Harvard didn’t already have enough rockstar professors, we just managed to snag F. Orhan Pamuk, the famed Turkish novelist and Nobel Laureate, as Harvard’s Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer of the semester. The English Department’s new kid on the block will be giving guest talks on the art of the novel, which will be open to all at Sanders Theater. The Columbia professor, who splits his time between New York and Istanbul, sits down with FM to chat about Harvard, freedom of speech, and why winning isn’t everything...