Word: gardened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Class of 1996 that a select group of us would not live in Harvard Yard but would not live in Harvard Yard but would (drum roll, please) instead be put up at a posh Harvard-owned apartment building near the Radcliffe Quad--a nameless building located at 29 Garden...
...crapped out: a year in purgatory at 29 Garden...
...Yard for me. Instead, I would be quartered up Garden Street near the Quad, in what used to be a hotel located at the intersection of several very busy streets...
...Twenty years ago, we were smokin' grass," says Joe Armstrong, publisher of Garden Design. "Now we're cuttin' it." Formerly publisher of Rolling Stone, he has followed his baby-boomer generation into its latest passion. Once a dry periodical for professional architects and gardeners who speak fluent Latin, Garden Design was redesigned and reintroduced last April with a price of $5 an issue and a circulation of 50,000: average age, 43; median income, $71,000. Like other high-end offerings, its glossy editions feature gorgeous photography, closeups of sweaty petals and buxom peonies, landscapes that cry to be painted...
...this excitement and attention bemuse the traditional gardeners, those lifelong devotees for whom the hobby is a necessity, not a luxury. "They would garden," observes Allen Lacy, who has been writing about the original tribe for years, "even if everyone else considered that gardening was a sign of a diseased mind and uncouth habits." Yet Lacy is convinced that whatever motive draws gardeners in, whether vanity or foolishness or the need to bury their treasure in the ground, the actual experience outdoors will come to exert its own pull. "I know nobody who has given it up, except for reasons...