Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order. I usually get tea--Earl Grey with milk and honey. But tonight demands coffee, strong and dark. With only a little cream. It's psychological, not the caffeine. The cups at Pamplona are heavy, my energy is absorbed in the act of drinking. Our conversation is frantic, fueled by nervous energy and lack of sleep...
...know the price of espresso at Cafe Pamplona, poppy seed cake at the Coffee Connection. We know to go to Tommy's Lunch after a party, and to Cafe Algiers in times of crisis. And we know when to order hot chocolate or tea with honey instead...
...group of students rarely are quiet long enough during any given hour of class discussion to hear any one else speak. Through this research, scientists uncovered the existence of a secret ritualistic club, "The Bullshitters of Harvard." After many years of freelancing, the individuals apparently decided to organize in order to accomplish their mutual objective of worldwide annoyance. I attended a recent meeting during which an alumnus returned to give a speech on techniques of Harvard section behavior...
...regular students sit in classes and painfully grind their teeth in frustration, the B.S.O.H. has virtually taken over the humanities classes. Varied attempts have been made to "deprogram" B.S.O.H members in order to make classes safe again for education--everything from hefty fines for pseudo-intellectual statements to my personal favorite, decapitation. But nothing seems to work...
Born from a muddled campus-wide referendum in 1982, the council has been struggling to justify its existence ever since. In the early years, members became embedded in factional disputes. Report-writing, paperwork-loving, xerox-happy bureaucrats fought bitterly against campus activists who campaigned for council seats in order to force the hand of the University on such issues as divestment from companies doing businesses with South Africa...