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...Crimson's recent article on "regionalism" seemed insidiously to equate the Confederate flag with Buffalo wings, surf boards and football games as quaint symbols of regional pride ("Like Race, Regionalism Can Be Cause for Bias" news feature, Nov. 28). It is time we put an end to this nonsense...
...Hampshire primary. What did we think was important to tell readers about Tsongas 15 years ago? For one thing, that he "has strongly supported the Kennedy-Waxman national health-care plan." After the events of this past year, "the Kennedy-Waxman national health-care plan" has such a quaint ring...
MARTHA'S VINEYARD--A 45-minute steamship ride brings tourists by the thousands to this island resort, where the big attractions are quaint general stores, summer homes of the rich and famous and miles of unspoiled beaches...
...have realized that the fine print is more important, more powerful than ritual or atmospherics. Still half in, half out of the church, wistfully faithful, I find myself puzzling over those contractual details. The church's ideals of family, for example, strike me as, by turns, heroic, profound or quaint...
...that humanity's victory against infectious disease was just a matter of time. The polio virus had been tamed by the Salk and Sabin vaccines; the smallpox virus was virtually gone; the parasite that causes malaria was in retreat; once deadly illnesses, including diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus, seemed like quaint reminders of a bygone era, like Model T Fords or silent movies...