Word: cellars
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Thanks to the large glass front, this second MIT bar resembles a slightly brighter Cellar. On weeknights the Miracle of Science draws a predominantly local crowd. While on some weeknights the place is pretty much deserted, you can expect slightly more excitement on the weekeneds, as a few adventurous MIT students stroll down toward Central Square to sip on screwdrivers and watch the cars zip along Mass. Ave. While the Miracle of Science is not a place to drink pitchers and get rowdy, it is a great to place to sit back, relax and chat with friends—just...
Equivalent Harvard bar: The Cellar...
...There are more examples - more, perhaps than anyone wants to admit - of countries whose rudeness is not shut away in a dark cellar but brought to light and celebrated as an attribute. The Germans? So rude that they even find themselves unbearable, hence all those holidays that involve drinking too much beer. The Swiss? Rude in a unique hodgepodge sort of way, combining the worst characteristics of the Germans and the French. If you haven't been told off by a grouchy Swiss chocolate maker, you haven't lived. Fantastic...
...place could be seen in "All About Eve" and Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man" - but you could find plenty of notables inside El Morocco ("Elmo's," at 2nd Avenue and 54th Street) and The "21" Club (founded in 1921 at 21 West 52nd), with its wine cellar protected by a two-ton door, and (further west on 52nd) Toots Shor, the favorite of sportsmen and serious drinkers like Jackie Gleason. Naturally, America needed arbiters to decide which of these people with too much money and way too much free time were worth the reader's notice. That...
Particularly illustrative of this delicate balance is a scene where Leahy, urged to lie about the dead bodies in her cellar, indignantly exclaims that she refuses to “tell a fib.” Leahy conveys the strength of a woman who cares about living truthfully and decently and has somehow reconciled multiple murders with her sense of moral integrity...