Word: corneres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...famous Reading International on Brattle St., on the corner of Church St., is better if you're looking for magazines and journals rather than for books. Whatever you can't buy in the Square Kiosk or Nini's Corner can usually be found there...
Another inspiring home for the bookworm is Harvard Bookstore on Mass Ave. There are actually two stores called Harvard Bookstore--one on the corner by Plympton St. and another, two stores up, which sells cheap copies of out-of-print books--generally good for such bargains as The New York Times Most Famous Front Page Collection, for $1.98, the $25 Baseball Encyclopedia for $8.98, and other cut-rate goodies. Meanwhile, the Harvard Bookstore (corner variety) has a marvelous display case of newly-released first editions, so you can spend your summer popping in and out, looking to see what...
...course, it is probably unfair to apply very high standards to a book that, after all, pretends to be nothing more than entertainment. Breslin is a marvelously gifted writer, no matter what his topic; a tough, grown-up Irish-American punk, he has a street-corner sense of humor and a sharp ear for dialogue, and his characterizations of middle-class New Yorkers seem to have stepped straight out of the subway. Even in dubious collaboration with Schaap--a sportswriter whose previous literary accomplishments, if that is the work for them, include a bunch of as-told-to locker-room...
...named Jay who lived in a huge house. Its 32 rooms were filled with tapestries and wood carvings. In an enormous library with shelves from floor to ceiling, he could curl up and read Dickens and Stevenson and Tom Swift. Best of all, tucked in a corner of the garden was a little cave where Jay used to sit for hours and imagine that it had once belonged to King Arthur. In the evening, he and his family discussed literature, and sometimes Jay made up stories for them...
...corner of Washington seemed untouched by the new/old winds ablow-ing. Fred Emery, over at the Federal Register, where new Government proposals are catalogued and printed each day, looked up at his staff at the close of work on May 18. The alltime record had just been broken-512 documents had been recorded in eight hours, eclipsing the old record of 386. "Hey," he said, "this Government is supposed to be going the other way." Yeah...