Word: mugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, even freshmen accustomed to slippery conditions were having problems yesterday. Jonathan Roosevelt '91, a Cambridge native, said that he was running through the Square yesterday with a new mug his mother had given him. "I slipped, flipped a somersault, landed on my butt and broke...
...just broken up with my high school boyfriend over the phone--it's an old story. My first thoughts were to consume--shut out the pain with a cigarette, a bar of chocolate, or a hot mug of coffee. I wanted to be reminded of home, of friends, family, security...
...shirt looked like it pre-dated Kennedy, his mouth was jaded, his eyes looked a little mad. But when he smiled proudly at the guru's account of his heroism, his face lit up and he blew gently on the coffee the guru handed to him in a heavy mug...
Gentrification is everywhere: The Mug 'N Muffin's bottomless coffee cups have been replaced by a bank. Another bank is about to succeed Brigham's across the street. A Mt. Auburn St. building that housed three bars and a restaurant is gone; soon offices and boutiques will occupy its site. Two of the old establishments will return--no doubt to upscale surroundings and a different clientele...
Especially that of Samuel Tibbetts, summa cum laude from Stanford with extracurricular honors in Marxism. Tibbetts is a study in sociopathology, a graphic mug shot of the intellectual as free radical: corrosive, amoral, tyrannical and remorseless. He is not above ordering the deaths of colleagues he feels do not toe his party line. Tibbetts and his followers are eventually captured in 1978 and brought to trial in Boston for murder...