Word: pangloss
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...Toxic air" causing dizziness and nausea has forced the temporary closure of Pangloss Bocks, its owners...
...volumes of padded leather omniscience is $999 from the Coop. For those with more interesting tastes, $1,100 will buy you the Complete Works of the Marquis de Sade in French, bound in gold-embossed black leather with red endpapers and a red silk book mark from the Pangloss Bookshop, 65 Mt. Auburn Street. Also at Pangloss, a first-edition first-state copy of Poe's Tales, at "considerably more than...
...Pangloss, located on Mt. Auburn, known for its warm fires in the winter months has a cozy atmosphere and is known for a wide selection of out-of-print books...
...last half of the book, Reich abruptly shifts from Pangloss to pessimist with an artful analysis of the nation's class cleavages. He correctly identifies the growing economic and social gap between the well- educated elite ("the fortunate fifth") and the rest of the nation as the major threat to future prosperity. His remedies are mostly liberal boiler plate: progressive taxation, job training and reinvestment in the nation's infrastructure. Familiar Reich stuff -- but probably not the right stuff for Democrats hungering for an economic road map toward 1992 and beyond...
Somewhat smaller but more sophisticated is Pangloss Bookshop at 65 Mt. Auburn St., specializing in hardcover non-fiction. Pangloss's academic offerings, although a bit pricey, attract Cambridge's intellectual elite, and have made the store a favorite among Harvard faculty members...