Word: inns
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...accomplice of history. Other stories are poignant (the Okies on the road in the Dust Bowl), and some are epic (the jeep in the war). The symbiotic ecology of car and economy, which continues to this day, gave rise to the motel (the first chain, Holiday Inn, started in 1952) and to the Golden Arches (Ray Kroc bought the fledgling roadside food chain of the McDonald brothers in 1961). Las Vegas grew out of traffic, with Californians driving in on Highway 91 at the rate of 20,000 a weekend (they're still coming...
Moving back across the Square, a grown student could (and still can) find refuge, even sanctuary, in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church behind the Inn at Harvard. We should remember this contribution in less turbulent times when enjoying the church's creative role in the production and performance of theatrical events, including a nod to ancient comedy in last year's "Menaechmi" of Plautus. In the late '60s and early '70s, the church was a center of protest for those politically opposed to the draft and to the Vietnam War as a whole. In the '80s, it was part...
Perhaps it was Youngman's first break, back in the Borscht Belt Catskills of the 1920s, that taught him the virtue of volume. The professed "Milton Berle groupie" was fronting Henny Youngman and the Swanee Syncopaters at the Swan Lake Inn when the club owner, hearing Youngman tell his jokes between songs, decided to save money by firing the band and telling the funnyman to stay...
...serve swordfish this year, and some will print information about the campaign on menus. That way diners will learn that swordfish populations are under pressure everywhere and severely depleted in the Atlantic. "As chefs, we are high-profile people," says Robert Taylor of Hamilton's at the Admiral Fell Inn in Baltimore, Md. "Consumers look at what we serve and take their cues from it." A new menu at New York City's Le Bernardin, says chef and part owner Eric Ripert, "will list swordfish but then say why we no longer serve...
...need to eat lunch or dinner, to relax or stay in a hotel ? Bethlehem lacks these facilities, and we cannot attract tourists unless they are built.? In other words, 2,000 years after Christ?s birth, visitors to the town are still unlikely to find room at the inn...