Word: oak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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APRIL 7, 1975. Formal opening of the new Orange Line extension. Surely an event not to be missed. Already, the Harvard Square system maps show stops like "Wellington" and "Oak Grove" in that nether world north of North Station. Images conjured up of faraway, exotic places. Never rode the Orange Line before (has anyone?); seems like the perfect time to give...
Then comes the spanking new station at Sullivan Sq. Large-scale bustle and commotion. What's this? The end of the line? Everybody out! What happened to the glory of Wellington? The Promised Land of oak Grove? Next, year, it turns out (or maybe the year after). What a bust. The Old Orange Line want to Sullivan Square. The MBTA lays itself some new track, finds a new stations at Community College (of all places) and calls it an extension. This is the biggest excitement to hit Boston since the Red Sox lost the pendant last year...
Unkind Cut. "Underneath the imitation-oak-grained formica veneer is solid oak, beneath that phony image of character is character," writes Safire. But what is the nature of that character? He never succeeds in defining it. Perhaps there never was anything cohesive in Nixon's character. Perhaps Safire is simply too compassionate to label it. Such ambiguity of approach may partly explain why Safire's original publisher, William Morrow & Co., rejected his manuscript as unsatisfactory (the author lost his suit to recover all of a promised $250,000 advance, settling for $83,000). Still, Safire offers lively anecdotes...
Frank Fisher has learned quite well how to live with himself. On this Sunday morning the oak logs that he cut from the forest on Blue Hill south of Boston are burning in the old Franklin fireplace on the first floor of his half-house on Farwell Place. Fisher says he emerged from "narrow scrapes" with marriage in his middle years, and is much more secure in his solitary situation today. "The conventional pressure to follow a particular family pattern was ever so much stronger 25 years ago," he says...
...repression by the author of The Gulag Archipelago. This was Solzhenitsyn's 629-page account of his 13-year struggle to survive as a writer in his homeland until he was arrested and dispatched to the West against his will. The book is called The Calf Butted the Oak-a Russian proverb that suggests a lonely struggle against an overwhelming power, in this case the Soviet state...