Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...riot" was culminated when someone turned in a false fire alarm, which brought five pieces of fire equipment to the scene. One of the Cambridge policemen said, "It was obviously a Harvard student who turned in the alarm to get back at the Bick for levying the minimum...
...noticed some tuxedos among the bearded loafers of the 11 o'clock crowd. Here, they thought, is something. Here is what we have been waiting for these long years. The Bick has ceased to be the symbol of the locusts' ravage, the turtles' quiet call. And swiftly they gathered back where the butterscotch puddings stand stacked in gleaming rows, where the untoasted English lies moist and soft in purple racks. We must do this slowly, they said, but inexorably...
Dismaying, of course; symbolic too. The move was calculated and premeditated, yet still drastic. While the clock cannot be turned back, perhaps, it need not be set ahead so suddenly. A ten-cent minimum would tax the non-coffee drinking philosophers. But 15 cents goes too far; the Bick is, after all, a place for radical talking but moderate deeds...
...dances and parties and I would ask for a show of hands to see how many people would buy a record if I made one. I figured two hundred and fifty copies would be plenty, but other people heard the record, looked up the address I have on the back, and wanted to buy one. The stores in the Square were willing to sell them ("a public service" they called it) and it just snow-balled. Last year it was in the list of top ten L.P.'s in England for a while, and now it's getting started...
...singing the same songs over and over and that's why I want to quit. Two more years ought to do it as far as singing goes. As for writing and recording, that's another thing--I can do that in my spare time. I'd like to go back to teaching, though. I invested a lot of time in my Ph.D. and I want to finish my thesis. The whole point of this singing is to make up the economic difference between a job in industry and a teaching salary...