Word: faneuil
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...shopping mall, he came up with a revolutionary idea to lure people away from it. His strategy was to revitalize the decaying inner city his developments had helped denude--not with a gleaming, modernist makeover but by restoring original buildings and bustling public spaces. Rouse's "festival marketplaces" like Faneuil Hall in Boston and Harborplace in Baltimore, Maryland, not only brought shoppers (and tourists) back downtown but also reimagined the town-center social dynamism that attracted people to cities in the first place...
...last week, one of my house tutors read my palm. Paul Ma-chemistry tutor, volleyball player and seer extraordinaire--recently took a course at MIT on the "science" of palmistry; his reading was therefore perhaps more authentic (if the word applies at all) than that of a woman outside Faneuil Hall last summer, who told me that I would be married and pregnant by the end of my 18th year. And he was perhaps little less authentic than the New Delhi mendicant who five year ago divulged that I would earn royal honors for my humanitarian work in the Third...
...Paul's prophecies with more than a barrel of salt, it's only because my skepticism actually stems from a strong desire to believe. No one ever forced his or her palmistry on me--in each instance, my palms literally itched to be read. I'd even paid the Faneuil Hall woman five dollars for her prophesy--in advance, of course. This desire to believe merits some examination, especially because it is so pervasive among Harvard students. Paul said he has read the palms of more than 100 Dunsterites in the past six weeks...
Last weekend, I tried to escape February. I went to Chinatown for the first time, and I also walked around Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market for the first time in years. Doing something new invigorated me, but when I re-entered the Yard, it was unmistakably February again. Part of February's horror is that the month disguises itself. It dresses up in the form of a holiday for lovers (one that doesn't achieve its full effect if you pass it in Lamont, I might add) and a celebration of two great presidents. Most misleading of all, it contains...
...casual night, with the once and future team leaders dining at Faneuil Hall with the coaches and then heading home to watch TV. Feaster says she treats her recruits in the same...