Word: oed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ashbery published some work in the Advocate, one in a plethora of aspiring young writers whose names would later ring with household familiarity. The presence on campus of fellow undergraduates and now much-acclaimed poets Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch put Harvard at the "center of cultural poetic activity" in the late 1940's, Shoptaw says...
...Koch and O'Hara who later urged Ashbery to move to New York City, the poets' mecca, where he currently resides...
...Paul E. O'Connell '49, who entered Harvard just after World War II as part of the GI Bill with his two brothers, lived with his family near Central Square...
...O'Connell says that the Leavitt and Pierce tobacco store, still located on Mass. Ave., used to have a coffee counter inside that he remembers fondly...
...would go there and have a cup of coffee and read The New York Times every morning before my 9 o'clock class," he says...