Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Friendly or merely fatuous, Americans seem to be first-naming everyone-lovers and strangers alike-with promiscuous enthusiasm. Even Boston has capitulated. Mrs. Alfred Titcomb, a dowager of Beacon Street, has decreed that henceforth she wishes to be addressed as "Mildred." The champion American first-namer may be Harold Davis, chairman of Georgia State University's journalism department, who says that he knows 10,000 people by their first names; he even teaches a course in how to duplicate this quintessentially American feat. Says Harold: "We are in a first-name society. Few people are called by their last...
...possibly please all 194 fellow Democrats in the house, at least 53 of whom were bound to lose their jobs in the November 1978 election. For example, two liberal Boston representatives, who are longtime friends, will be pitted against each other in Boston's new Back Bay-Beacon Hill district: Elaine Noble, 33, the first avowed lesbian in a state assembly, and Barney Frank, 37, a colorful and outspoken leader of the party's liberal wing. Outraged incumbents called Keverian a "butcher" and a "stooge." Keverian conceded that his plan involved not so much punishing dissidents as remembering...
Paco always knew it was the stereotypes that matter--like the fiery Chicano stereotype that had taken out of the migrant's school outside of San Francisco and had put him in the gringo school outside of Beacon Hill. But gradually that year he understood it was that other stereotype, that Harvard-Fly-Club-air-of-casual-scholarship phantom that was going to take him even further in the gringo world as soon as he could climb out of the long black robe on Commencement. Hell, he figured, there's Ropes and Gray and Rose Guthrie and Alexander...
...time may have come to Boston. Led by Janice Cashell, 32, an actress-director-teacher from Florida, the Massachusetts Center Repertory managed not only to raise $250,000 before the first-night curtain went up but also to gather together on its board of directors city hall politicians and Beacon Hill nabobs, to say nothing of Helen Hayes and Mrs. Curt Gowdy. Any group that can accomplish either of these feats ought to be able to survive Strindberg. Melvin Maddocks
Sensing that the time was ripe for action in the Bay State last winter, Oteri assumed responsibility for directing NORML's lobbying efforts on Beacon Hill. The decriminalization issue had benefited from a recent Oteri test case on cocaine. In a Roxbury Court last fall, Judge Elwood McKinney ruled that cocaine prohibition in its present form was unconstitutional. According to some observes, the cocaine controversy has drawn attention away from decriminalization, giving both politicians and drug-oriented interest groups more room in which to maneuver...