Hardwick, Elizabeth Hardwick. “Boston: A Lost Ideal.”

Harper’s. In it she writes, “The importance of Boston was intellectual and as its intellectual donations to the country have diminished so it has declined from its lofty symbolic meaning, to become a more lowly image, a sort of farce of conservative exclusiveness and snobbish humor.” She continues, “Quick minds hesitate to embrace a region too deeply compromised. They are on their guard against falling for it, but meanwhile they can enjoy its very defects, its backwardness, its slowness, its position as one of the large, possible cities on the Eastern seacoast, its private, residential charm.”