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...Square. En route, we saw a police car zooming along Mt. Auburn St., its megaphone on. “The Red Sox are going to the World Series!” the policeman inside yelled over and over again, his voice amplified and distorted. When we got to Mass. Ave., we followed the crowds streaming into Harvard Yard; drunken undergraduates were massed around the John Harvard statue cheering on the band, which had ranged itself on the steps of University Hall. We kept running into people we knew. “Whoo,” we?...
...spontaneity of the celebration, though, and the man whom I overheard waxing nostalgic about college, suggests that young people are predisposed to this sort of gathering and shouting. I cannot explain, really, what compelled us to cross Mass. Ave. into Harvard Yard, or what compelled us to convene in the Square; I cannot explain what compelled us to shout, full-throated and earnest, about the victory of a team I frankly dislike. There may have been a sort of mass hypnosis at work—the sort of workaday hypnosis often wrought by alcohol and lots and lots of young...
Granta, a well-respected literary magazine, is proud to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Editor Ian Jack will read works from this milestone issue, along with Pankaj Mishra and Gary Shteyngart. Free. 6:30 p.m. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave...
...Ocean is not so far removed from the time of slavery, and Aunt Ester surely remembers. Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 2 p.m., 8 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 7:30 pm. Through Oct. 30. Tickets $14-$67, $5 student discount. The Huntington Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave. Boston...
RIVER ST. & WESTERN AVE. BRIDGES...