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Raising Boston subway fares has always been an emotional affair. In 1948, a fare hike from ten to fifteen cents inspired one of the great folk songs of the 20th century, J. Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes' "The MTA Song." The ballad tells the story of a man named Charlie who rides "forever 'neath the streets of Boston," without a nickel to pay the subway's new exit fare. Walter O'Brien, a Boston politician, used the tale of the famous "man who never returned" in his 1948 mayoral campaign, promising to repeal the fare hike and "get Charlie...
...There are siren moments," George Steiner once wrote, "when quite normal creatures otherwise engaged, men such as Lenin and myself, feel like giving up everything--marriage, mortgages, careers, the Russian Revolution--in order to spend their days and nights moving little carved objects up and down a quadrate board." My hope is that after a couple of weeks I'll OD and swear off the stuff. I'll fall so far off the wagon that, in reaction, I won't have another taste for years. But just in case it does not turn out that way, be warned...
Buell gave yesterday's lecture, but said Dr. Prudence Steiner would teach the course until Kiely returns...
...Steiner taught the course before Kiely took the reins and, according to Buell, was among a list of suggested substitutes that Kiely provided over the weekend...
...thought he was going to speak of things that were more readily digestible," Steiner quipped...