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...display are 200 paintings by 61 18th and 19th century artists, ranging from John Singleton Copley's John Scollay and Winslow Homer's Milking Time to an anonymous primitive of General George Washington without his teeth. There is no chronological arrangement of the paintings. "The whole thing was done by feeling," explains Electra Havemeyer Webb, the museum's president and founder. "Paintings can harmonize, or they can clash and look perfectly horrible. We just keep trying until we get the right effect...
...famous houses with distinguished residents. Another peak of the Trimountain, Mount Vernon, disappeared; it used to be just above Louisburg Square (where the carollers go on Christmas Eve) and, according to Walter Muir Whitehill, appeared on most maps "quite unequivocally. . . as Mount Whoredom." To compensate for its disappearance, Scollay Square, also just beyond aristocratic Louisburg, has acquired a new sort of outdoor night life...
Cambridge, by contrast, is cleaner, quieter, and usually a more pleasant place to live. But in spite of all the little diversions of the summer, it can get pretty dull. Even if it only to see a movie or to ramble around Scollay, you should travel those eight minutes to Park Street and take a look at Hell.The lovely banks of the Charles...
Harold has a can of beer and a package of gum remaining; or a one-way subway token to Scollay Square (he can come back tomorrow); or English muffins and a cup of tea. Or a package of cigarettes. But it is night, the time of neon and lengthy shadows, streetlamps, hushed voices, nervous laughter, and sex. Night is Harold's garment of life...
...Idealists and mothers' sons gave her the vote--and she sent Eisenhower to Korea. She invaded poetry and journalism, industry and politics, legal courts and graduate schools. She wrote advice to the love-lorn. Those twin sisters of feminine freedom--Adultery and Alimony--turned suburbia into Sodom and rendered Scollay Square passe...