Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week's article "Emile de Antonio: Celluloid Villains and Heroes," Special Counsel to the Army Joseph Welch was identified incorrectly as a senator. Also, the quotation attributed to him should have read, "Have you, at long last, sir, no decency...
...cents to transport ourselves to a universe beyond the petty confines of academia. Our bold reporters ventured forth into the parts of Boston that you have always wondered about and some that you may never want to see. They returned with the thrill-packed accounts you are about to read...
Today the North End is a melange of different histories: the signs on the restaurants bespeak its more recent Italian heritage, while the street names are reminiscent of its colonial beginnings. Anyone who read "Johnny Tremain" when he was little, or had colonial history rammed down his throat, will appreciate the locale...
...surprised myself by actually stopping to read the little plaques on these buildings when I walked by, and by feeling a small thrill at the fact that I was standing on the very spot where mobs once gathered to protest "taxation without representation." As a native of Lexington (you know--as in Lexington and Concord) I was spoonfed local history from a tender age, and I'd thought I was hardened to that feeling of historical wonder--in Boston at least. But somehow, the North End called it back...
...student out for the evening. Even the people with jobs, the ones who actually live here, have only a specific view of the city, created by the daily schedule of working and going home. Jonathan Raban has written a book called Soft City (which I haven't actually read), which talks about the different cities people create for themselves; "your" city, the one you react to and live in, is made up of bits and pieces of actual contact...