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Cambridge shrunk slowly through the century, as townsmen asked for the right to open their own churches, instead of making long trips each Sunday. Newton pulled away in 1662, and Lexington opened its own parish in 1696, but Brighton remained a part of Cambridge until 1779. But as it shrunk in size, Cambridge grew in stature, an increasingly wealthy city that also served as the intellectual capital of the 13 colonies...
...festivities were supercharged with hatred between competing camps of revelers. The parades of these mock "kingdoms" had sinister overtones. Masquers of Paumier's Sheep Kingdom carried rakes, brooms and flails, wore shrouds and grimly offered "Christian flesh" for sale. Guerin's ostentatious Partridge Kingdom mocked the poorer townsmen with price lists offering luxuries for a pittance. More immediately threatening was the Partridge army-a real one - whose men carried new arquebuses and long Swiss pikes. The troops went into action during the notables' masked ball at the city hall on the night before Mardi Gras. They spread...
...conscientious Congressmen to the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids, the Louvre. Or, in the case of Kansas Senator Robert Dole, en route to a United Nations food conference in Rome, to the village of Castel D'Aiano near Bologna, where he hoisted one or two with some townsmen. Dole's visit was not so much a junket as a sentimental journey. It was at Castel D'Aiano 34 years ago that the Senator, then a young infantry officer, led an attack across the Po River. He was wounded by enemy fire so severely that his right...
...visitor, however sympathetic, is prone to feel that the hope is deluded. The stripped-down Protestant faith of the townsmen should have readied them for that. Where two or three are gathered together, there first of all is Satan: pride of self, envy, greed. While it seems a near certainty that Plains' magnetism for tourists will diminish (when I was there, I saw a mere 300 a day-lots of parking, no crush), it also seems certain that the green crossroads and its 600 souls can never lapse into pre-Carter life. The cause is not Jimmy...
Community bulletin-board notices in Yamit range from the mundane to the momentous. One announces natural-childbirth classes; another appeals to the settler who left a pair of shoes in Sasoon's delicatessen to retrieve them. But mixed with these is a plea for volunteers to chauffeur townsmen to Jerusalem for a protest demonstration. Another seeks donations to a fund "to keep Yamit Israeli...