Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sketch this scene to convey something of the spirit of the Rue de Salaud--approximately sixteen blocks of cold-water flats, back stairs, and cracked plaster stretching from the Radcliffe Graduate Center to Central Square. This is the Left Bank of the Charles, the garret-estate of the unwashed literati, the tenements of the night-crawler--that interim period creature who walks the Cambridge streets between Commencement and Summer School...
Harold has a can of beer and a package of gum remaining; or a one-way subway token to Scollay Square (he can come back tomorrow); or English muffins and a cup of tea. Or a package of cigarettes. But it is night, the time of neon and lengthy shadows, streetlamps, hushed voices, nervous laughter, and sex. Night is Harold's garment of life...
...Welcome back...
...From the back of an envelope, Dean Bundy attempted to tell the newcomers what the Summer School should be like. Speaking from notes on the back of a small folder, he used Woodrow Wilson's definition of a University atmosphere: "What students talk about when they are not engaged in academic pursuits." Mere residence could not associate anyone with Harvard: "You have to make it yours," he told them. "It does not come...
...behind Shaunessy and Briggs, only Jack Foker has had any significant experience, and Yovicsin will have to rely on essentialy untried talent to back them up. At guard, Anderson and Keating will be supported by sophomore Terry Lenzner, who has shown much promise, and again, below this, things are pretty uncertain. At center and end, the situation has eased a bit as practice has progressed. Pete Eliades is a dependable understudy behind Foster, and below Hershon and Keohane, Warren Huff and sophomore Bert Messenbaugh have looked good...