Word: opinionatedness
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The most noticeable item in the window of Montrose Spa, a small convenience store and sandwich shop up Mass. Ave. toward Porter Square, is a t-shirt bearing the text “02138: The world’s most opinionated zip code.” The sartorial statement has...
The idea for this hot item came from a 1991 Boston globe article in which writer Mark Muro “proved” through research (eavesdropping on Cantabrigians’ conversations) that in this city “almost everyone seems to know everything about everything—or...
Rodriguez found the most egregious example of gratuitous opinionatedness at Café Pamplona, where he overheard the following: “Really, to say she capitulates to the patriarchy she critiques every time she posits the supplement is very uninteresting.” While this episode of mental masturbation is strong support for the thesis, FM decided to ask some of the most opinionated students on campus if they thought that 02138 really deserved this label...
They agree, in their differing ways, that the moniker is accurate. “I think it’s certainly an apt description of the political climate inspired by Harvard,” says Gladden J. Pappin ’04, managing editor of the Salient. From the opposite...
But what’s really important is, would anyone wear the shirt? At least one opinionated editor forsakes 02138 for a more famous zip, “Well, wearing it would interfere with the regular use of my Beverly Hills 90210 shirt,” writes Lee. The Beverly...