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		<title>Fall break 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For readers of this long-form blog who do not receive my monthly newsletter, an explanation is necessary for the long hiatus between posts. I&#8217;ve had to take a break whilst launching my course in the new Masters in Historic Preservation degree program at the Boston Architectural College. I look forward to resuming these posts as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>24. Eliotic Jews, JFK Catholics &#124; Boston Symphony Orchestra</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DS-T is a Boston-based,  Harvard-educated historian,  an independent scholar specializing in American art and architecture and Boston/New England studies. He  now regularly teaches a course at the Boston Architectural College on Newbury Street:  &#8220;Back Bay Boston and Historic Preservation &#124; a Global Perspective on Metropolis.&#8221;  *  *  *  *  Best known for his books,  his earliest,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>23. Peter J. Gomes &#124; Of royal weddings and election sermons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 02:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harvard&#8217;s Pusey Minister in Memorial Church and Boston&#8217;s/America&#8217;s iconic gay chaplain,  Peter J. Gomes,  Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, was an old friend whose essence I may well have missed if Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick was right  (as I thought he must be at once I read it)  that this black Baptist,  crypto-Anglican conservative gay Boston [...]]]></description>
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		<title>22. &#8220;The Boston religion&#8221; &#124; First American Modernism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Born in the Middle West,  where the pioneer mentality was still alive, brought up in Boston,  the stronghold of Puritan tradition, you came to Europe . . . . The position you have held in modern literature provokes a comparison with that occupied by Sigmind Freud  [and]  . . .   the novelty of the therapy which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>21.  The Boston silence &#124;  &#8220;I am terrified&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A terrified patrician&#8221;  is not quite the same as &#8220;a sceptical patrician&#8221;,  and it is perhaps unreasonable to expect TS Eliot to have written as penetrating an essay about what I call  &#8216;the Boston silence&#8217;  as he did about what he called  &#8220;the Boston doubt.&#8221;  Instead,  he wrote a poem  &#8211;  &#8220;Silence&#8221;  &#8211;  which,  significantly,  he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20. &#8220;The Boston doubt&#8221; &#124; &#8220;Seeing through everything&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the latest post from DSTs  Gods of Copley Square &#124; The Boston Brahmin and the dawn of the modern American experience,  a series of studies the earliest of which,  &#8220;Ralph Waldo Emerson:  The first Boston Brahmin&#8221;,  will appear on this site later this year. Gods of Copley Square is a work in progress, and this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fellow Christians, tear down that creche!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Boston's founder] John Winthrop, a lawyer and manor lord from Suffolk who rejected England as a sinful nation, drew his exalted vision of Boston, a place that then existed only in his great expectation of what it might become, from the Sermon on the Mount: &#8220;Ye are the Light of the World. A city that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>19. Dover Street Rag &#124; The Grand Opera House</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A comment received after the posting of chapter 18 of this e-book &#8211;  that these  &#8220;Eliot pieces have an energy derived from a rediscovery of the poet from considering him in a way he has never been examined,  as a creature of the urbanized  Northeast&#8221;  &#8211;  has, never mind being gratifying,  reminded me of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>18.  Dover Street Rag &#124;  &#8220;the world&#8217;s greatest tragedy&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was not all dirty dancing on Dover Street.  As my grandfather &#8212; who I have set up here somewhat as the &#8220;genteel&#8221;  narrator of these chapters he was the witness of so much of &#8212; will increasingly testify to, the Inferno  had some bright if mostly they were very dark passages.  So also the  South End&#8217;s pioneering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>17. Dover Street Rag &#124; Metropolitan underground</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copley Square,  Scollay Square,  the polarities of the Boston metropolis.  The great New World agora of faith and learning,  Boston&#8217;s soberly magnificent new metropolitan civic center &#8212; MIT,  Harvard Medical,  Trinity Church,  the Museum of Fine Arts,  the Boston Public Library &#8211;  was,  in fact,  partnered in the same period by the evolution of another quite [...]]]></description>
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