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...sets, looking westward from Saint James' front stoop, small bakeries and clothing stores along Mount Auburn Street prepare to close their doors after another day of work...
...sets, looking westward from Saint James' front stoop, small bakeries and clothing stores along Mount Auburn Street prepare to close their doors after another day of work...
...area stretches southwest from the Theater District and westward along the Mass Pike until Copley Square. The "Emerald Necklace" laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted, Class of 1894, borders it on the west. Its southern border is less distinct, eventually melting into northern Roxbury along an ambiguous dividing line...
...Gramont but years ago Americanized, launched into a rhapsody about professional football. Ted, whose Sundays are lost from September to Super Bowl, loves what he calls "the beauty" of pro football--its power, its grace, its intelligence. Ted explains that football is a symbolic re-enactment of America's westward conquest of territory--while baseball is a "post-settlement" enterprise in which each team by turns pacifically yields the field to the other...
...exiled Puritans, convinced of their sacred mission to convert "the Lord's waste," the forests of New England, into a place fit for God's elect. In the 17th century the Wild West was in the East, but by the early 19th the frontier had moved thousands of miles westward, taking with it the same optimistic, sacramental fantasy, translating it into the pompous and morally corrosive idea of Manifest Destiny. The farther west you went, the freer you became...