Word: neighborhooding
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Allston residents continued to voice concerns about the impact of Harvard’s proposed science complex and questioned the University’s relationship with the neighborhood at a meeting of the Harvard Allston Task Force last night...
Allston residents at the meeting showed signs of disagreement with the task force, which is staffed by neighborhood residents and is intended to represent the area’s interests as Harvard expands its campus across the Charles River...
Residents criticized the task force’s chair for supporting Harvard’s plan to build a science complex whose height would exceed the guidelines set by the North Allston Neighborhood Strategic Plan, a 2004 scheme set out by Harvard and the Boston Redevelopment Authority...
Measures being taken to curb the violence by politicians today—from increasing the Boston police force by 60 troopers to allowing the red-bereted neighborhood watch group the Guardian Angels to return to Boston—are short term fixes at best. They do nothing to alter a cultural predisposition towards violent gun culture. Once the funding for increased trooper numbers dries up and the Guardian Angels skip town, the murder rate will again spike...
...defensive hands of the bored reader. Constance Barton is haunted by the fear of death through childbirth, pursued by visions of ghosts and demons coming to harm her 4-year-old daughter, Angelica. Blaming her husband’s malignant intentions, she turns to the advice of a neighborhood spiritualist. The ghost story is told first from the perspective of Constance, then of spiritualist (and proto-feminist) Anne Montague, then of Joseph Barton, father and husband, and finally of Angelica Barton herself, who turns out to be the surprise narrator behind all the voices of the novel. Phillips writes...