Word: plympton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tommy's Lunch: Tommy Stefanian has had a Harvard institution on Mt. Auburn St. between Plympton and DeWolfe Sts. for more than 25 years. As other food emporiums come and go, Tommy's remains. The crowd there can vary (and usually does) from Crimson and Lampoon editors, to Quincy and Lowell House partiers, to video game players, to smokers who just love to get yelled at for putting their feet on the furniture (a grave no-no at Tommy's). No smoking while playing Ms. Pac-Man, but good cheesesteaks and thick frappes (that's a milkshake in Bostonese). Tommy...
...those who crave book-hunting adventures and are not disposed to claustrophobia, there are several used book specialists with popular and obscure titles. Aisles are narrow here, but lighting at McIntyre and Moore Booksellers (30 Plympton St.) is enough to allow reading. Fairly academic volumes line the shelves and it sports large literary criticism, philosphy and medieval history sections. Across the street is the Starr BookShop (29 Plympton St.) nestled in the east end of the Lampoon castle. It's got two floors of mostly scholarly and classical texts...
Returning Crimson editors are invited back to 14 Plympton St. each and every afternoon this week. Drop by, say hello and help us with our stuff...
Other Ginsberg followers crammed into the small Plympton St. bookstore for one of the 58-year-old poet's many Boston autographing and interview sessions this past weekend to promote his book, "Collected Poems...
Heaney is the best-selling poet at the Grober Bookstore on Plympton St., said Louise Salano, the shop's owner. "What's amazing is that he's so damn good" as well as being popular, she added...