Word: coops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might have to worry about a job," Bok says, "but here at Harvard you have nothing to worry about." Accepting the Harvard Republican Club's Charles Manson Award for Mass Murder, former President Richard M. Nixon announces his simultaneous retirement from politics and organized crime. Nixon stops by the Coop to autograph copies of his memoirs, Requiem for a Dike Bomber...
...boasts that he has never bought clothes in America and that he has not been in the Coop yet this year, for "specific ideological objections to commercialism. And he says that when an American friend asked him what the association has been doing, he would not answer, explaining that it is "too serious to talk about over dinner...
...guess that's true. The Coop had it in the Architecture section, but maybe it should have been in a "book" section somewhere, a section founded on the assumption that everybody has a story to tell or a home to tell about. Mike Cherry's home is among the ironworkers, and his story is of his trade--ironworking. He says he wants to make it come alive by putting it all in a book. Putting it in a book, though, is why he fails--which I think he knows by the end. Whether he knows it or not, he winds...
...Keep Himself Safe. He tries so hard to become an ironworker that part of him becomes a super-ironworker; the other foot twists uncomfortably in the writer's camp, so that when it comes to setting this down he has as much trouble defining his "book" as the Coop...
This is a time of difficult re-evaluation for many women. Sending in Harvard College to superintend that growth seems to me a little too much like sending the fox to tend the chicken coop. Not that I have the slightest doubt that Harvard foxes are honorable men, who would selflessly and unflaggingly dedicate themselves to our best interests--but I would rather not give them the opportunity right now to prove my faith unwarranted. I sleep better when my watchguard's solicitude is motivated by mutual self-interest, rather than benevolence...