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...young man swung down a Boston hotel corridor, passed a private dining room, where an Italian wedding reception was going on. But the guests recognized him and swarmed out to surround him. "You shouldn't be applauding me," cried Edward ("Ted") Kennedy. "You should be applauding this lovely young couple about to start a wonderful life together." Then, as his "wedding present to this wonderful couple," Ted Kennedy, 29, sang Sweet Adeline. That was fitting: Sweet Adeline had been the theme song of Ted Kennedy's maternal grandfather, the late John ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald, who was Boston...
...candidate to win on his own terms, to defy the party and interest groups. The egghead thinks it's worthwhile to be defeated. I think it's worthwhile to be elected." This same pragmatic professionalism sets O'Brien apart from many of the other men who surround President Kennedy. "I don't know what I'm doing in this crowd," O'Brien once mused. "I didn't go to Harvard, and I'm not athletic. I don't even play touch football...
...only appear in the flesh during the first segment of the film. After that, he becomes a ray of light, a murmur of thunder. The script even avoids mentioning the birth of the Enlightened One's child, but otherwise spares nothing: the cartoon bevies of sensual maidens who surround the young prince, the rape of his wife by his malevolent cousin Devadatta, the visions of seminude sorceresses who tempt him to turn from the way of the spirit. There are also human sacrifices, torture, man-trampling elephants, death plunges, demons, ghosts and imps. Beyond that, the film will have...
...Paul Revere, and James Otis. The Old South Meeting House and the Old State House on Washington St. also figured significantly in the prerevolutionary period and exhibit the evidences of colonial insurrection. Faneuil Hall, in Faneuil Square, is worth visiting both for the startling variety of produce markets which surround it, and for its historical interest as the scene of innumerable rabble-rousing tirades against the British by such stalwarts as old Samuel Adams. If you can follow the Freedom Trail markers, you will be guided also to the Site of the Boston Massacre, King's Chapel, the Home...
Like a man given a golden door knob, Viereck attempted to build a mansion to surround his toy. Unhappily, his intellectual, poetic, and dramatic resources sufficed only for a pasteboard imitation of a mansion, a flimsy substitute for a play. That line was one of only four Good Things about a wasted evening...