Word: old
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looked out the window and saw that it was night. When I looked again, it was day. I called the phone company, and they said it was day. Then I looked a little closer and noticed a construction crew working out on the street. With mean jackhammers and hard, old faces, they penetrated concrete and dredged up sludge. Scrubby, spotless students passed them by with remarkable direction and oblivious, vacant expressions. They continued like a stream of mosaic colors, and the noise became louder; orange cement mixers whirling and turning and the tools spitting out their dense, metallic noises; they...
...store-lined walk the other way down Mass Ave is Central Square, heart of non-University Cambridge. It's here you'll find Cambridge City Hall, an imposing, dingy brick hall that boasts one of the few front lawns anywhere on Mass Ave. Central Square is also where the old-style big city department stores and the Y can be found, not to mention the police station and the MacDonalds. Cambridge's best disco, the mainly black Rise Club, sits on top of a rickety brick office building here...
...old people of this community may move to Miller River, an elderly housing project right on Cambridge St. Where they can continue to sit on folding chairs on the sidewalk, greeting passersby and keeping an eye on the community. A fat man dressed meticulously in black stands guard outside his funeral home, keeping the parking lot clear for mourners whom he welcomes with just the right mix of reserve and geniality. A baseball game half a block off Cambridge St. is more an occasion for drinking Schlitz than playing ball, but abusing the ump is the favorite sport. "Only...
...accord. Lopez is consistent only in his insulting and pretentious tone, strange for one so attached to mother Harvard. Beyond that, the chapters ramble without direction, and often fail adequately to cover their topics. The section on the undergraduate college, for example, is a messy heap of old famous grads, stories about buildings, and nasty quotations from anonymous sources who hate Harvard...
Total strangers wandered through the dorm, madly introducing themselves, in search of instant friends. The nauseatingly sweet smell of incense (burned to cover the odor of dope) and the stench of old beer permeated the dorm. Music blared from every corner of the Yard, while huge groups of drunken men huddled and leered at women going from party to party. I got asked the big four questions--name, school, career plans, SAT scores--so often I could recite them in seconds (although I refused, as a matter of principle, to talk scores). After one night of parties...