Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confused, don't know what to call the Square-Harvard Square. Piazza Leprechauna, Columbus Square. You know that John Harvard really had nothing to do with Cambridge. Just gave the college some books when it moved here. Later though a lot of Italians came here and the school got better...
...Vellucci explained how Cambridge was getting crowded and what pressures Harvard and M.I.T. were putting on the city and its people. He talked strongly and with pride about the community that East Cambridge is: how the men there are all skilled workers, how the Puerto Ricans get a much better deal living there instead of Boston, how he wanted it to stay just the way it is. He didn't want the homes replaced with high rises even if they were "low income" dwellings...
...take care of that. You know there have been five tax increases since they announced they were going to build the NASA center here. There are already eight hundred technicians working there and there are going to be five thousand more. Those people are going to be making better salaries than you and they're going to be outbidding you for your own homes, or else they're going to tear down your homes to build high rises that those technicians can live...
...glories within."), the Real Author is easily identifiable as none other than the odious Terry Southern. So you see why I had to mention the unfortunate proliferation of parody. Not even the Poon is safe from such unexpected reversals of reality, because this man Southern has done them one better. It should there-fore be no surprise that Bored's second edition already bears a boldly-lettered come-on announcing. "Terry Southern's best book since The Magic Christian...
...course, Harvard's cross country team cannot claim complete superiority over Penn because coming up are the Heptagonals, the ICAA's, and the NCAA's. Both teams will be in all three, and Harvard really can't be better than the Quakers unless it wins the Heps. "Our season begins now." Crimson captain Keith Colburn said last week. Last spring. Penn beat the Harvard heavyweight crew in a three-way race, but in the Eastern Sprints, the Crimson oarsmen reestablished themselves as the best at least when compared to the Quakers. There is a possibility that roles could be reversed...