Word: marean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unabashed chauvinism runs through Cambridge Sketches. Its authors speak pridefully of the "the Cambridge idea," fawning on the natural features of the city. Mrs. Emma Endicott Marean writes about the discovery of the river Charles by Englishmen: "No Hudson was this beguiling stream, which promised much in its wide welcome to the eager adventurers, but soon betrayed the secret of its dependence on the ebb and flow of the tides, confessing its narrow banks and its country manners...