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...Davis' stance on gun control is something else again. He says that all too many of his city's affluent "swimming-pool Communists" pose a serious threat to law-and-order. Respectable citizens, he says, should arm themselves to ward off domestic terrorism, and to be ready for some as yet undefined coastal invasion. Pot smokers also rank high on the chief's enemies' list. Last spring Davis dispatched 75 officers to a series of rock concerts, and they rounded up over 500 fans...
Beacon Hill is about an Irish family newly arrived at affluence and influence in Boston during the 1920s. Old Benjamin Lassiter (Stephen Elliott) was obviously suggested by Old Joe Kennedy: bootleg whisky and ward politics are his main concerns. The children, however, are not at all like the Kennedys. The only son, Robert, mopes around drinking mostly because he left an arm in Flanders fields. He does provide what passes for the central dramatic point of the first episode by leaving a formal dinner party to visit a cathouse. As for his sisters, they are an equally sorry lot: Fawn...
Returning to politics after 28 years, Solano has been a member of the Democratic City and Ward Committee in Somerville, a delegate to the first Democratic pre-primary convention in Worcester, and the recreation commissioner in Somerville from...
...hung grey-eyed in their dribbling wake. For a day and a half, Fred and I raced through the tidal hours in his bronze-bodied van, but the American whatever stayed with us always. Caught in its plastic envelope like marbles in a dime-store package, we pressed never-ward with eight cylinders and 287 horsepower, spinning down white-aisled roads, waiting to be torn free...
...grew more famous in the 1960s, he began holding his annual Delos symposium, a week-long Aegean cruise to which he would invite 30 or so distinguished thinkers. A typical guest list would include the likes of Inventor Buckminster Fuller, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Industrialist Robert O. Anderson, Economist Barbara Ward and Media Guru Marshall McLuhan. It was, Anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, the closest thing to the great English house parties of the turn of the century-stimulating talk in an informal atmosphere...