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...blocks away, on Boylston St., another high-rise structure appears imminent. Soil engineers, contracted by Cambridge landlord Max Wasserman, are testing the peat and clay subsoil to determine what size structure the ground can economically support. The land is zoned both for office space and housing; given the relative surplus of office space in the Boston area, the choice will probably be housing...
...Feild is a proud possessor of one Turner landscape engraving entitled "Peat Moss of Scotland." He explains its long pedigree. Turner gave it to Ruskin who presented it to Charles Eliot Norton. From Charles Norton it passed to Denman Ross, who gave it to Arthur Pope, a noted Fogg professor and Mr. Feild's one-time boss, during the years Mr. Feild taught the principles of drawing and design at Harvard. Mr. Pope gave it to Mr. Feild, his student and colleague. It seems particularly moving and fitting that this gentle artist and teacher with an independent and fighting spirit...
Jack Lynch was born in Cork in an age when peat, potatoes and parish priests meant Ireland. They are still valid symbols, and the country still feels the effects of the terrible potato famine of 1846-48, emigration and a low birth rate. Just before the famine, its population was 8,000,000; now it is 3,000,000. But today's Eire is also a land that produces electronics equipment, Pharmaceuticals and plastics, one where 500 factories have been built in the past decade...
...recent recession, large manufacturers were the first to cut back their college recruiting. This year, the businesses that have been hiring the most students are accounting firms, insurance companies, public utilities and oil. A.T. & T. plans to hire about 3,500 graduates this year; the accounting firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. will take on more than 1,000 for its 105 offices across the country; and the Prudential Insurance Co. will hire 500 (the same number as General Motors). Qualified graduates will find a number of openings in banking, construction, building-materials manufacturing and retailing. The firms that have...
...about sex after 1662. What nonsense! The fact is that my great-grandfather Andrew Bowen, who was born in 1732, was a small Irish farmer (three inches taller than Keats) and thought about sex all the time. He thought about it with the kine in the byre, with the peat in the bog and with the kelp on the strand; and sometimes at night he would rouse himself on his pallet with a dreadful groan, exclaiming, "Oh, I am thinking about sex again!" This was so painful to his mother and father and three living grandparents, who slept like spoons...