Word: block
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...harsh and fickle world of teen chic, kings are crowned and deposed every fifteen minutes. MC Hammer's shiny balloon pants soon popped and Vanilla Ice thawed from chill to slush in a matter of days. The New Kids on the Block lasted only as long it took to learn Jordan-Joe-Donnie-Jon-Danny's names. "I stopped having any real idols post-NKOTB," says Maureen P. Murphy '01. "I had all the buttons and the sheets and the sweatshirts. I was pretty fanatic about them, but I got a little of sick of it after a while...
...source of this idle idol worship is the "breakdown of the family in our society," says Kyle A. Gilman '02. "Teenagers don't have anyone to look up to in their family, so they fixate on these strange people like the New Kids on the Block...
...shift of just a few hundred feet, less than half a city block, but few things Harvard administrators could have done would have please Harvard's closest neighbors more...
When Harvard decided to focus their location search on the Swedenborgian block, a largely residential area in the vicinity of the Design School, administrators quickly recognized that the grand scale of the project would likely conflict with the desires of the Cambridge community to maintain the residential flavor of the neighborhood...
...displays the same mordantly comic look at the literary life that enlivened Bech: A Book (1970) and Bech Is Back (1982). The five stories that make up this new installment of the saga show an older and grumpier Bech still worrying about his long bouts of writer's block and finding ways of getting away from his desk whenever he can. On a State Department-sponsored junket to communist Prague in the mid-1980s, Bech meets dissident Czech writers and begins to envy them for living in a place where literature is considered important enough to suppress...