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While men like Andrew Jackson and Daniel Webster debated the future of the Republic in the hall, merchants in Quincy Market across the square sold sides of beef and sacks of potatoes to the citizens. For nearly a century, Faneuil Hall and its three-block-long annexes-Quincy, North and South Markets-stood at the center of Boston's commercial life...
...centuries, opera librettists snubbed The Duchess of Malfi. The cut was unkind, since her tragic tale is the very stuff of grand opera. John Webster's play, published in 1623, is admirably lurid and complicated. There is the Duchess's secret and forbidden marriage to her steward Antonio. There are her two evil brothers: Ferdinand, who is driven mad by incestuous passion for her; and the Cardinal, who schemes to be Pope. After her marriage is discovered, the Duchess is imprisoned and tormented by madmen. At the end, everyone dies violently...
According to Webster's dictionary, an alewife is a small North American fish, resembling a shad, or a woman who operates an ale house. In Massachusetts, however, Alewife is also the name of a parkway running through the western part of Somerville. That's where the Metropolitan Boston Transit Authority (MBTA) is going to extend the Red Line from Harvard Square by 1982 or 1983, if everything goes according to schedule. Lucky for the Class of '82, things won't be too bad in the Square until March or April, when the heavy construction is scheduled to begin. But just...
Stan Strickland with Aisha Kalilah and Sundance, Afro-Asian jazz--at Lulu's, 3 Appleton St., Boston, Sunday at 9. Also at Webster School Courtyard, 15 Upton St., Cambridge, Saturday at 7:30, free...
...words of a Yale man. You know perfectly well why I brought you here. Tell us about those two anarchistic bastards." So Benchley said, "Okay, I will, but this is a most unfunny matter." He then recounted the following incident: a friend of his had run into Judge Webster Thayer at the Worcester Golf Club. Thayer had presided over the Sacco-Vanzetti trial where they were found guilty. This made Thayer quite a celebrity; said he to Benchley's friend: "Did you see what I did to those two anarchistic bastards?" Benchley had submitted an affidavit to show that Thayer...