New Philosopher

The goodness of courage

hen Boston baseball team, the Red Sox, won the 1912 World Series, millionaire bohemian and baseball fan Isabella Stewart Gardner attended the Boston Symphony Orchestra wearing a hat with the words “Oh, you Red Sox” blazoned in red on the front. New York magazine, a scandal sheet on high society, reported: “[it] looks as if the woman has gone crazy”. Seated in her conspicuous hat, Isabella, the magazine reported, caused a “panic among

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