Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PEOPLE AROUND HERE are pretty sensitive about their ice cream. A good friend of mine always orders vanilla A lot of people can't understand this compulsion of hers "You have no originality," they say, "How boring...
...those who ridicule this friend of mine are equally persistent in their own convictions. If Sally can't have her scoop of Cahaly's mintoreo with M&Ms on top, or if Baskin Robbins is out of Sam's Jamoca Almond Fudge, their ice cream runs are immediately aborted Harvard students see ice cream as they see just about everything something to take a stand on. A harmless discussion of ice cream penchants can quickly become an irresolvable quagmire...
...usual in the high circles of academia, there is seldom agreement within the local ice cream intelligentsia. That was until a couple of weeks ago, when there was a glammer of hope for solidarity within the Square's ice cream community. The imminent opening of a new branch of the famed Steve's Ice Cream on Church St. seemed to assure that the ice cream-loving factions could reach a compromise. Any soul who had trekked to the original store in nearby Somerville could attest: Steve's was quite simply the best. At last, many lovers of the creamy treat...
...chilling indications that something got lost during the trip down Mass Ave. No longer treated to the perverse pleasure of a 20-minute walk and a 30-minute wait, connoisseurs now are discoving a sterile, betrayed environment. Although the Square may have gained a few new flavors, ice cream lovers have lost much more: the Steve's myxtique...
...Freshman Week for the Class of 1983: swimming tests, ice cream "bashes," and fervent 4 a.m. philosophical debates with nameless people from across the hall. Sex came up as a topic of conversation now and then as well. And at the center of all this frantic activity was Catherine Oxenberg, queen of the facebook, object of the collective lust of Pennypacker 25 and countless other male suites across the Yard...