Word: suttons
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...creating and sustaining the world, form an immense narrative beside which the Mahabharata is a mere short story, and all of them are embedded in the sacred sites that cover Australia. (From the Aboriginal point of view, in fact, Australia is one big sacred site.) Hence as curator Peter Sutton puts it in the catalog, "The land is already a narrative -- an artifact of intellect -- before people represent it. There is no wilderness...
...Sutton went to Washington with Kennedy and stayed there with him until Kennedy moved to the Senate in 1952, meeting Richard Nixon and Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the process. After returning to Massachusetts, he went to work for state Treasurer Robert Crane until Sutton's retirement...
...Sutton has remained an avid observer of Boston politics and has lamented the changing style of politics. "I think they try to make it neighborhood to neighborhood, but he neighborhoods have changed. The tenement districts of Charlestown, East Boston and South Boston are now condominiums. How can it be the same if there's people moving in where your father or mother paid $12 a month rent for a cold water flat and sent their kids to local school...
...someone who had a front-row seat to history and knew inimately some of the political luminaries of his age, Sutton retains a refreshing modesty. "How would I like to be remembered in politics?" he asks himself. "As a voter. Just as a voter--and someone who tried to help when they needed...
BOSTON has always been the mecca for politics," says Bill Sutton, a 75-year-old Bay State political veteran. "You don't have to emulate anybody in Boston politics," he says. "If you are what you are, then...