Word: plain
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...Office of Scientific Research and Development as a radar laboratory. The architectural firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbott, which under one name or another designed all the River Houses, departed from the neo-Georgian elegance that characterized their earlier work for Harvard and put together a plain three-story structure with a flat roof and red shingles...
...curlers. The term natural, in its strictest sense, should not be applied to anything contrived or even changed by man. Some philosophers, to be sure, encourage a soupy sort of reductionism. "Nature who made the mason, made the house," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. That notion is nonsense. It is plain as rain that people invented the house to escape the elements of nature...
...good thing that richer, professional people are moving in, buying condos. Most neighborhoods are whipped right now." To Mayor White, the implication that gentrification could have ill side-effects is outrageous; after Time magazine ran a picture of a burned-out office building "in gentrifying Jamaica plain" he called the photo "a disgrace...
...remember is that when "richer, professional people" move into Jamaica Plain or the South End, someone else has to leave. And though White may see South Boston and Mattapan as "whipped neighborhoods," at least they've been home for people who couldn't afford Back Bay or the suburbs...
...matter of gentrification also has implications for Boston's racial integration problems. Usually, integration in housing occurs after some minority families move into a previously all-white neighborhood; the whites often then start to flee the area. But in Jamaica Plain, for instance, it's been the white professionals who are moving in, pushing minority residents out. So while that area is well-integrated on paper (roughly) half white, half Black or Hispanic), the rents that have risen as much as 70 percent in three years have pushed the minorities, Blacks in particular, away from the center of the Jamaica...