Word: albiani
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peter..." I said. Suddenly I was breathless, almost speechless, practically without a metaphor from desire. Hot desire. Warm, tanned, crimson desire. That she should come with me. Through the cold December Yard into the pink April of Albiani's for some coffee--April, no extensions--just in case, I borrowed twenty cents from Snyde...
...Albiani's for coffee in Cambridge if you do not go to the Hayes-Bickford, or Hazen's, or the Wursthaus, or Jim's Place and that is what the sign over the door says, for those who do not know any better and read the sign--or the University Restaurant which Hemingway does not go to, but which Fitzgerald was known to prefer, or to the Casablanca, or the Cafe Mozart. The coffee varies; but you get to know what it tastes like in each place...
...regression in this general trend is the shelf that even now creeps from the Coop, over Albiani's towards Church Street. The Square's better (liberal progressive twentieth century) half can still triumph over its reactionary rival, though, if it makes the Shelf functional and therefore gloriously modern. Let's make it a nesting place for local pigeons. Or let's run up a block and tackle and turn it into a parking place for motorscooters. The Shelf might make a fine vantage point for cheerleaders, of either sex, to stir the hearts of a Square pep rally...
Even with this great increase, the Coop is preparing to expand. Upon the completion of the new Harvard Trust building, next to Albiani's, it will occupy what is now the first floor of the Trust's building. The bank will retain the upper floors and will also use the entire new building. This move will nearly double the Coop's selling space...
...think it was Bill, suggested we let Barbara and Joe out. But Frank laughed and said that Barbara and Joe certainly knew what a dark closet was for and we ought to leave them alone. There was no argument against this and by then we were all at Albiani's eating jello...