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...taught, by dint of "natural vision," he begins to create a new, true and specifically American picturesqueness out of rocks, gorges, sunsets, trees and distant Indians. He is taken up by the plutocrats of his day, some with long patrician roots, like Stephen van Rensselaer III, America's biggest landlord, and others more recently arrived, like the grocery millionaire Luman Reed. Old money wanted to show that taste was not a monopoly of Europeans. New money hoped to prove that it too had refinement and a stake in forming the national image...
...December of last year, the Massachusetts Homeowners Coalition, a landlord group, collected 93,000 signatures on a petition to place a referendum on the issue on the November 1994 state ballot...
...over Cambridge's most perennially divisive political issue--rent control--heated up last year as landlord groups campaigned for a statewide referendum that would end the policy once...
Most recently, Fenton appeared in West Roxbury District court to defend himself on charges of threatening his landlord's wife...
...tale, but one told with frequently mordant wit. At the novel's center are two altruists whose yearning to serve others is frustrated in large measure by ill-advised marriages. Dorothea Brooke (Juliet Aubrey) is ward of her eccentric uncle Arthur (Robert Hardy), who is known as "the worst landlord in the county" for the shabby way he treats his tenants. Dorothea's desire to improve the lot of others leads her to wed the Rev. Edward Casaubon (Patrick Malahide), a scholar and cleric more than twice her young age. She is enraptured by his dream -- to write a book...