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Complete with marble-topped counter and an antique soda-fountain glass, display Billings and Stover Apothecaries, Inc. has all the trappings of the drugstores that many of our parents--and grandparents--may have known...
...Madanian's estimation, the store's single best-selling item is the Mason and Pearson hairbrush. It's more expensive than the average CVS plastic model, but "it lasts for twenty years," Madanian says, indicating the finely-crafted brush in a box on the pharmacy counter. "Definitely a quality item," she adds...
...tried to re-create the original look," says Madanian. Indeed, the current black marble counter matches the one in the picture, although a bit smaller...
Soda fountain fare features as many hits of yester-year as the pharmacy counter. Along with traditional ice cream and old-fashioned fudge made on the premises, the fountain offers such staples as the ice-cream soda and house special "Larry's New York Egg Cream." Apparently, the drink was named after a certain Larry who banged on the window the night before the new old-style fountain opened and taught the staff how to make a real New York egg cream...
...recount these instances of activism to counter the dominant idea that the new "pragmatism" is a paradigm shift. University administrators happily contrast the present times with the bad days of the '60s, but does the deafening silence on such issues as affirmative action represent a true philosophical turn to results-oriented social action or rather a moral failure of the campus left...