Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never cancel a class. I schedule everything else around my academic commitments because I consider that to be my primary responsibility," Orfield says, adding that a lot of faculty who don't have outside projects are often less hesitant to cancel a class or to stay available to students...
...Student sits with me. "I was walking around there getting a cup of coffee and y'know that little lady who's always walking around there?" he asks. "She walks over with a plastic cup to the coffee area and pours hot water in it, swirls it and pours it out. I realize this food service woman doesn't trust the cleanliness of her own dishes. She has to give it a warm water bath." Does that bother him? "No, it's not my fault that she's crazy...
...most is the camaraderie on the job with other employees and Lowell students. "People come back and visit after they graduate; some stay on in the Senior Common Room. I remember most of them." One afternoon, a woman walked in and when Vicky saw her, she stood up, walked around her desk and the two women embraced for almost a minute. Vicky said, "That was Mrs. Bossert, the former master. She's special. There's a word for it. They were open. She used to bake everything herself for Thursday tea. She started early Wednesday and she enjoyed it. There...
...idles comfortably across from the Holyoke Center, occupying the best seat in the Square. It slinks around St. Paul's Church onto Mt. Auburn Street, more graceful than any mere shuttle. It brakes irreverently in front of the Mother Church of Christian Science. It's the fastest way to get to Newbury Street from the Square. Running continuously between Harvard Square and Dudley Station from 4:37 a.m. until well after midnight, the #1 T Bus has a long hard day. If this bus could talk, what would it say? Now, an exlusive look...
...faux-British accents. They talk of Boston and the Square, at a volume sufficient to drown out most of my other conversations. Finally, the driver surrenders; "What brings you to Boston?" he asks. The blonde begins to detail their vacation. The loudest of the four, a bandanna tied around her short dark curls, turns to a third and exclaims, "OOOOOH, YES! We have engaged the bus in conversation!" Hmph. Actually, I didn't say anything. But I should have known they'd be trouble; those who know board by Holyoke Gate...