Word: nook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Battery Park City. At lunchtime, when the famous New York pace slows to idle, the "suits" from the World Financial Center loosen their ties and go down to the river to join couples, amazed tourists and mothers with strollers. On a sun-splashed October day, this new way-downtown nook hints of the Mediterranean...
...shop, McIntyre and Moore, had been a favorite among Harvard students searching for the off-beat near the heart of Harvard Square. Tucked in a 550-square-foot nook across from Starr Books, the shop was known for the piles of books stacked on the long desk behind its store-front window...
Word soon got out about the new theater. It was cramped and dirty, but also innovative and exciting. The new performing area was only the first of many spaces which students have transformed into ad hoc theaters. This semester, about 40 plays have gone up and it seems every nook and cranny on campus hides a cast and crew. Kiely speculates that Sellars introduced the concept at Harvard: if a space can hold more than 20 people, it's a theater...
...while I thought I might have a story on the the subject of the world's most pretentious donut shop. Only Cambridge, I thought, could boast a java-and-danish nook with a ridiculous French name and prices four times the normal exchange rate. But no one else seemed to notice any irregularity, and by the time the "Au Bon Pain" and "Vie de France" explosion was over, "patisserie" signs were as common as lesbian poets on the streets of Cambridge. It just wasn't news...
...without belief. A shell of the totalitarian idea. Does this mean, then, that the famous distinction between this system and traditional authoritarianism (e.g., nonideological dictatorship like that of Somoza or Marcos) disappears? No, because one crucial difference remains: only one system continues to aspire to totality, to colonizing every nook and cranny of social life...