Word: cooped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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IMAGINE you go to the Coop this afternoon to buy a textbook. When you give the clerk your credit card, he suddenly calls Harvard Book Store and Wordsworth to ask about your credit limit...
...first-year students who are unpacking their belongings and waiting on lines everywhere from the Coop to Cambridge Trust, the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) is another headache that they must deal with...
Since most of that is textbooks, and a lot of the rest is coffee table and children's books, there is surprisingly little left in the way of good reading. If you are looking for basic literature, the Coop has it, and one advantage is that you can charge it, but even the fiction selection can be beaten at several of the other stores...
...biggest disappointment by far, however, is that the psychology, sociology and black studies sections are full of pop books and near-to-devoid of scholarly work. The Coop, for example, is the one bookstore in the Square that stocks a lot of copies of Dianetics...
While Harvard Book Store, The Coop and Wordsworth are the most convenient and well-stocked stores in the Square, many of the others might be more your style, and on a too-hot day in July, moving from store to air-conditioned store is not a bad way to spend an afternoon...