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...Quincy, the Quincy House master's two-floor apartment was named one of Boston's top five apartments by Boston Magazine. With three bedrooms and four baths in the main apartment, and a four-bedroom, two-bathroom residence assistant quarter, the rooms are large and spacious. But the interior dulls in comparison to the Boston and Cambridge skyline that lies just outside. Elegant living is not the big selling point for the pad; the Quincy House residence simply has what others do not: an immense roof garden with exquisite views of Boston and the Charles. The masters share the wealth...
...From the street, the Mather House master's residence appears as a windowless brick fortress. But inside, enormous rooms, vaulted ceilings and incredible square footage turn the citadel into a castle. While most castles are stone-cold, this one has heated floors. Although interior brick and concrete walls present a formidable obstacle to home decorating, the masters have risen to the occasion. "The architecture challenges us to make it human and warm," explains Sandra Naddaff, Mather House master for seven years. Colorful furniture, like a pair of camel-back blue couches and a massive painting of the Taj Mahal...
Students and council representatives also used the meeting to address what they say is a dangerous and inconvenient problem that has become aggravated by UKA--exiting from interior areas of Houses that do not have 24-hour universal access...
...where their contents are now on display. The walls bracketing the doorway are painted in saturated blue and red-orange, and a little vestibule stands between the observer and the room, so that the flickering and buzzing of neon tubes is registered before the blue light of the interior stuns the senses. Pronged triads of blue neon look as though they are pressing through the ceiling, their phosphorescence the kind we latently suspect of causing cancer. The boxes are mounted at eye level on brief supports, as though enshrined in a latter-day temple...
...comic voice can be seen by the pale attempts by other authors in the intervening years to replicate that light tone successfully. While Bridget is too detailed at points to read like a diary ("7.32 a.m. Except do not have any mushrooms or sausages. 7.33 a.m. Or eggs."), as interior monologue it's genius. The punning title may bring to mind Augustan seriousness, but Bridget continues to radiate glorious energy, and that sheer energy propels The Edge of Reason. Like Austen's Emma (it's hard to avoid referencing Austen when a novel includes elements such as the aforementioned Darcy...