Word: bicking
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...many Cliffies remain dissatisfied--and with some justification. Picnics are nice, but only once every few years. And the Graduate Refectory is still rather far away. Thus, a large number of women continue the traditional twelve o'clock scurry from Widener to the Bick and back again...
...resent: they advocate a soft, yielding, and likewise feminine calculating examination of life. And secondly, that no man can afford to take any Bogart picture more seriously than it affects/effects him on the first viewing: that this article is only as off-the-cuff and irrepressibly impudent as any Bick seminar, and no one has a right to insinuate that his Bogart is nicer than mine...
...penetrate an inch or so below the surface, as when he talks about Radcliffe or about the Harvard tradition of independence. But his picture has no moving parts; it does not come alive. What is any description of Harvard without mention of the Harvard-Yale football game, of the Bick, of the banks of the Charles, or of the massive amount of creative energy that goes into extracurricular activities? Harvard's diversity is not so much in its geographical distribution and large complement of foreigners, but rather in the individuality and idiosyncrasies of each separate student. Its freedom...
...reputation of being a center for Bohemians. "That depends on what you mean by Bohemian," she said. "Sure, we used to do some funny things. Like once we all got dressed up in fancy costumes and walked from the Wharf clear up to Scollay into a Hayes-Bick. But they wouldn't serve us. Well, then, when the Megansett Junior Tea Room was out at number 22-23 on the Wharf, we used to have big parties just for the Wharf people. We'd have costumes, and a bar, and once in a while a hurdy-gurdy. Sometimes...
...recently become a thriving barroom, serves as evidence that asceticism and the Good Life can be practised simultaneously. Do the authorities worry about liquor being served on the premises? Not a bit of it. For generations a variety of nearby 'pubs' have formed the social equivalent of Cronins, the Bick and Cambridge coffee-houses...