Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bypassing 17 Quincy St. is to have a good atmosphere in which to bring up his three children. Elmwood is situated on Mt. Auburn St. at Elmwood Avenue in the midst of a quiet, shady residential neighborhood, while the house at 17 Quincy St. overlooks the Faculty Club, Lamont Library, and the traffic along Mass...
...CRIMSON and walking back to Eliot House at sunrise; friends booted out of school for fighting the war in the only way they knew how; tenured professors making jokes about other tenured professors who are homosexual; subtle but vicious racism between blacks and whites: the great view from between Lamont and Houghton of lovely Holyoke Center, the weird red Mass Ave buildings from which Harvard ejects tenants, and Wigglesworth; Nini's Corner; and sherry. We didn't drink sherry in Indiana, and I found out at my proctor's one night freshman year that you couldn't drink as much...
...last Friday, near the end of a normal working day, an operator on the Harvard switchboard heard the news that others had only dreamed of. Lamont Library was going to explode...
...turned out, the bomb threat-which also included the Union and Fogg Art Museum-was as empty as the hope of warmth on a January day. But while it lasted it was enough to free the prisoners of Lamont for nearly two hours...
...unidentified caller said the big blast would come at 4 p.m. By 3:30, Harvard police had cleared all three buildings. They combed the buildings, came out empty-handed, and opened the doors once more. Shortly after 5 p.m., life in Lamont was back to its dismal norm...