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Margaret Reeb is somewhere in her 80s. In her Livingston, Mont., sitting room stands an ancient upright piano. On a wall hangs a photograph of Reeb and a smiling Eleanor Roosevelt. The topic of her verse--the mountain's beauty, the nobility of the pioneer gold miners who wrested their destinies from it--is a variation on an old frontier theme. Were she merely a wistful ex-schoolteacher, one could dismiss Reeb as a member of a familiar but vanishing species: the Western romantic...
...final clubs: Entertainment as good as the Leverett House '80s dance...
...Meanwhile, cash-strapped governments are no longer able to shoulder a broadening social agenda. If business wasn't stepping forward, despite its profit motive, where would the money come from to, say, restore the Statue of Liberty? American Express raised $1.7 million for that purpose in the early '80s in what is regarded as the first cause-related corporate-marketing effort...
...what about the House Committees? Remember the Leverett '80s Dance? The Adams Masquerade? Perhaps you will attend your house formal...
Many Armenians who escaped the 1915 genocidal massacre by Ottoman Turks first settled in Lebanon and Iran and then emigrated to the greater Boston area in the 1970s and '80s when civil wars erupted in those countries...