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...find out what student groups looked interesting, which is actually how I first discovered the business board of The Crimson. In retrospect, I think I was shell-shocked. By not participating in orientation week, I was trying not to admit that I was at the bottom of the food chain again and in unfamiliar territory. I wanted to be in California with my friends and family and was truly dreading what everyone proclaimed was going to be "the worst winter in history," not to mention my first white winter...
...Prohibition --Suntans --Leisure suits --New Math --The Blacklist --Comeback Tours --Asbestos --The Designated-Hitter Rule --Barney --Crystal Pepsi --New Coke --Woody Allen, Paterfamilias --DDT --Sailing the Exxon Valdez into Prince William Sound --The Eight-Track Tape --Cryogenics --The Treaty of Versailles --Smell-O-Vision --Chain E-Mail --Hydrogen-Filled Blimps --Staffing the White House with Interns During the Government Shutdown --Hair Club for Men --Bush's Choice of Quayle --Promoting Kim Philby --Message T Shirts --Videophones --Spray-on Hair --Infomercials --The Spruce Goose --Theme Restaurants --Letting Oliver North Near a Shredder --Not Bombing the Fuel Tanks at Pearl Harbor --Hooked...
...writer and culture impresario Gertrude Stein was a stolid, heavy presence, monolithic, unladylike. She liked to gossip and had a great laugh. She boxed with welterweights for exercise. Art expert Bernard Berenson described her as looking "like a statue from Ur of the Chaldees." Alice B. Toklas was a chain smoker with a slight mustache, given to exotic dress, Gypsy earrings and manicured nails. They met in Paris in 1907. Alice, 29, found Gertrude, 33, "a golden brown presence." Gertrude insisted that Alice had heard bells heralding Stein's "greatness." Alice said Gertrude was simply struck by love at first...
Steve's Ice Cream became the Cahaly's first tenant--until the ice cream chain's owners decided to sell the Harvard Square branch in 1996. The Cahalys then fought a now-infamous battle with the Harvard Square Defense Fund (HSDF) to bring in another Starbucks to the Square...
...Cahalys, Harvard Square, like therest of the world, has always been changing, andif paying consumers are willing to support acoffee shop, even a mass-market chain likeStarbucks, then it has a place in the Square...