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...certain extent this focus was the natural result of its creation back in 1936. Founded by Nathaniel Saltonstall and a group of Harvard affiliates as a satellite of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York, the institute was originally called the Museum of Modern Art in Boston. Located in a brownstone on Beacon St., the museum served as a venue for the traveling exhibitions of its New York parent, and at the instruction of MOMA, it concentrated on the Northern European modernist painters, leaving the New York branch to deal primarily with the Paris school of modernists...
...packs of Amazons roaming the streets ... for someone genuinely eligible and self-supporting who didn't mind a little cellulite." She wonders how she failed: perhaps her breasts were too small, or "Maybe we just ran out of things to renovate." The motivations hardly matter. When little Nathaniel is born prematurely, his mother bitterly acknowledges the truth: "Something was dying inside...
MARRIED: Joanne Blanchard, Nov. 16, 1963 (divorced, 1980). CHILD: Nathaniel Loreston...
...Beacon Street, designed by Edward Clarke Cabot in 1846, provided sunny halls where Brahmins could read (or snooze) and scholars could work. The Athenaeum's roster of readers over the years is a Who's Who of American writers: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Francis Parkman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Samuel Eliot Morison, Robert Lowell...
...Nathaniel Gove, 19, of Kingston, Mass., was diagnosed as dyslectic in the second grade. He was pushed through a special public school program with a dozen other children who had various physical and emotional handicaps. Unable to spell, for example, he was told to "just skip it." In junior high school, he was assigned to a large special-education class that satisfied the law but virtually ignored Nat's problems. He and his parents were unaware of how little he was learning until a college counselor told his father: "Your son is hopeless." Furious at the summary judgment...