Word: coops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hell, then price wars must be somewhere on the far side of purgatory. In any case, a hush-hush record sale has touched off a stampede at the Harvard Coop this week...
...WALL of a bathroom in the Coop, someone has written "STRETCHING NEURONS, LEON"; the producers of Harvard Square were pleased to find out about it. It just goes to show that people have been following WBUR's "continuing drama" radio program closely enough to pick up on the catch-phrase ("stretching neurons!") of one of the show's characters (a drug culture sensualist named Leon). If people write about you on bathroom walls, you know you've made...
Around 3 p.m. I was standing in front of the Coop with a friend when a boy reached into my pocketbook (an open canvas bag) and took my wallet. I saw him putting it into his coat and grabbed his arm telling him that I had no money or credit cards and would he please return the wallet. He replied "I don't have your mother-fucking wallet, lady." I told him I had seen him take it, whereupon he handed me a piece of paper which had been inside my wallet and said "Is this what you want, lady...
During this scene there had been 10 or 12 people standing around us in front of the Coop looking on interestedly but not helping. This didn't really worry me too much at this time because the boys (about 16 years old) were headed for the Yard and I was certain that people there would help me. I chased them across the Yard, in tears of frustration by this time, calling for help. I was shouting. "That guy took my wallet. Will someone please help me?" It seems to me that a girl visibly crying in the Yard and calling...
...most upsetting factor about the episode was not that my wallet was stolen and not retrieved, but that not one person in Harvard Yard (and there were dozens, not just one or two) helped me. After I lost the boys and was returning to the Coop a guy stopped me in the Yard and said, "Hey, I saw you chasing these boys through the Yard and yelling. Did you ever get your wallet back?" I was appalled...