Word: central
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...festival is music filling the air or competing with fireworks. Manhattan's Central Park was packed with almost a quarter of a million people last week as the New York Philharmonic exploded into John Philip Sousa and giant skyrockets burst above the band shell. A festival is Chicago Secretary Janice Simpson puzzling over whether she should go hear Lonnie Listen Smith at the Miller beer Jazz Stage or Muddy Waters at the Olympia beer Blues Stage, playing at almost the same time at ChicagoFest, where more than 500,000 trooped to the city's old brick and metal...
Most students fall in the middle of these extremes, however, placing academics in a central and important place in their lives but not letting them edge out the other things that make Harvard an attractive place. And there are good professors and good departments here, if you're persistent enough to find them. But you're much more likely to remember the people you knew and the things you did for yourself than the hours spent learning things you probably soon forgot
...short, store-lined walk the other way down Mass Ave is Central Square, heart of non-University Cambridge. It's here you'll find Cambridge City Hall, an imposing, dingy brick hall that boasts one of the few front lawns anywhere on Mass Ave. Central Square is also where the old-style big city department stores and the Y can be found, not to mention the police station and the MacDonalds. Cambridge's best disco, the mainly black Rise Club, sits on top of a rickety brick office building here...
More interesting is Western Avenue, which runs from Central Square straight to the Charles. The neighborhood it bisects is Riverside, one of Cambridge's heavily black communities. When it's hot, people are out all over; Donnell's Store does brisk business in ice, soda pop and ice cream despite a sign admonishing "No Checks Accepted Unless You Are 99 With Your Mother 109." Further down, near the river, you may find a tent crusade. All this summer, the Reverend Ezra kept his congregation under the canvas with his message that riches lead to misery. "He don't own that...
...steals whole descriptive passages about the atmosphere of the Harvard Business School. From the Crimson he steals sensational stuff that no respectable author would steal. Lopez rehashes recent controversies that have plagued Harvard in recent years--the fight over genetic determination and I.Q., the University's connection with the Central Intelligence Agency, the fight over the relocation of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. It's all been said before--and much better...