Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...events. This is no fault of the kind people who organize and publicize them, but more the product of my own inflated expectations. Perhaps I was imagining something more along the lines of the 50th reunion of the French Resistance: We'd sit on the terrace of an old cafe, trading war stories and examining our scars, laughing about how we'd beat the odds and made it out alive. To my disappointment, I found no such sense of esprit de corps at Senior Bar. Our shared destiny was our diploma, and that...
...when she tried to put Jessica in state-funded care, she was told she was "coping too well." For almost a year, until she found teaching work, Rowling lived off public assistance. Every day, to escape her damp, unheated flat, she'd take the baby to the nearest cafe and write away, nursing a cup of coffee. In 1995, after she found an agent in a writers' directory, a British publisher offered her a tiny advance of around $4,000. "I'm lucky by anyone's standards, not just single-mother standards," Rowling says. "The crucial thing...
...minute debate took place in Boylston Hall's cafe, after the council found its regular meeting room occupied by a Harvard Extension School class. The bill's sponsors said Harvard should send a message to these corporations while opponents of the bill voiced their doubts that divestment would be effective...
...close friend of mine studying mathematics at the Erdos Institute in Hungary for the semester, an accomplished polyglot in Romance languages, never managed to master more than the rudiments of the Finno-Urdic language of the Magyars. The first word came when my friend was sitting in a cafe. The waiter hushed patrons to listen to a radio report. "Belgrade," he said, and blew a cartoon explosion through his teeth. Over Wednesday afternoon, as the first reports of NATO attacks filtered in, the city became a menacing presence, its attitude towards the NATO action impossible to pin down. There were...
PEOPLE-WATCHING: A window seat at any bar or cafe on St. Lawrence, near Prince Arthur, offers beautiful people vistas galore. The hunky Montreal Canadiens hockey team hangs at Bueno Notte...