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...know how good we have it. Everyone at Harvard and Radcliffe should be obliged to spend at least one week a year at Yale, so that all petty problems and minor irritations with Cambridge fall into their proper perspective. The MBTA, the Bick, even Cambridge's foul and constant precipitation have never been as dear to me as they were after three days of Bull Dogs...
...back to winter in Cambridge, when the snow is dirty gray on the sidewalks and on the curbs. But in the winter you understood the place. And you can think back to winter, like the time last year on Christmas Eve when the cook at the Bick was getting so many orders for English Muffins that he was refusing to make them. And the yellow-haired lady with no teeth who works behind the counter giving orders to the cook was getting very angry. At one minute after midnight on Christmas Day, she said very loud, "Fuck you, cook...
From that moment on she lived for Fridays only. She sang Greek with Greeks. She hobnobbed with outcasts in the Bick. She shot hypocrisy. Devoured peaches. Drank gin-and-tonics in February. Flashed white gloves. Picked lilacs. Patronized Hattie Carnegie. Slept in churches. Teased Kay and terrified Claire. Laughed all week and cried Tuesdays. Bought Broadway. Clung to The Wings of the Dove. Pressed a morning into a moment...
...Kick: scaling the tallest buildings in the Yard. Pot: $30 an ounce, 2 1/2-3 1/2 years or up to $1000 (for a first offense). Liquor: 21, but the campus is wet...Hippie Hangout: the Bick, the Blue Parrot. Law and Order: Councilman Al Vellucci (considered a paper tiger...
Come fall, the teeny-boppers will go back to high school, the San Franciscans will return to Haight-Ashbury, the Diggers will entrench themselves in utopian flats, and the hippie boulevardiers who remain will adjourn to the Bick...