Word: faneuil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Massachusetts, Alexander held a rally in front of Faneuil Hall, Dole visited the Boston area and Buchanan held a controversial rally on historic Lexington Green...
...shopping mall, he came up with a revolutionary idea to lure people away from it. His strategy was to revitalize the decaying inner city his developments had helped denude--not with a gleaming, modernist makeover but by restoring original buildings and bustling public spaces. Rouse's "festival marketplaces" like Faneuil Hall in Boston and Harborplace in Baltimore, Maryland, not only brought shoppers (and tourists) back downtown but also reimagined the town-center social dynamism that attracted people to cities in the first place...
...Columbia, next turned to the aging inner city for a new and profitable crusade. In Boston he took over three run-down 150-year-old buildings and turned them into a lively complex of offices, retail shops, food stalls and restaurants. Within four years of its opening in 1976, Faneuil Hall was drawing 15 million visitors annually. It inspired Rouse to try a similar restoration job at Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Harborplace, which opened in 1980, had its detractors (a critic called it "Atlantic City's boardwalk with a touch of Disneyland"), but it helped revitalize Baltimore's downtown...
...last week, one of my house tutors read my palm. Paul Ma-chemistry tutor, volleyball player and seer extraordinaire--recently took a course at MIT on the "science" of palmistry; his reading was therefore perhaps more authentic (if the word applies at all) than that of a woman outside Faneuil Hall last summer, who told me that I would be married and pregnant by the end of my 18th year. And he was perhaps little less authentic than the New Delhi mendicant who five year ago divulged that I would earn royal honors for my humanitarian work in the Third...
...Paul's prophecies with more than a barrel of salt, it's only because my skepticism actually stems from a strong desire to believe. No one ever forced his or her palmistry on me--in each instance, my palms literally itched to be read. I'd even paid the Faneuil Hall woman five dollars for her prophesy--in advance, of course. This desire to believe merits some examination, especially because it is so pervasive among Harvard students. Paul said he has read the palms of more than 100 Dunsterites in the past six weeks...