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...then I noticed that I didn’t feel quite comfortable in Fifteen Minutes (FM) meetings. I didn’t feel entirely at home at 14 Plympton Street, even as the other Crimson freshmen began to cluster into social groups...
...past 50 years have been “lived” on Plympton Street: first as a neophyte bookseller, then as an actual one. My introduction to the shop came in 1956. The shop, with its worn couch, its even more battered armchair, its dark-grained bookshelves, and a table piled high with books, was the perfect fantasy bookshop. Friends, acquaintances, whatever literary light was in town would drop by to visit the shop and to meet the owner Gordon Cairnie. He was purported to have hosted the first painting exhibition of e.e. cummings, to have stocked copies...
...very favorite memories are of that most beautiful dogwood tree beside Apthorp House, the view (before Quincy House was built) from the Grolier down to the River, and, my very best, the students streaming down Plympton Street...
...sadness or disappointment, he or she is told to appreciate the good parts and not to dwell on the bad. So what if I never got to see the Bow and Arrow Press in the basement of Adams House? I’ve watched the presses roll at 14 Plympton at 6 a.m., surrounded by Crimson editors I love and respect. Presumably, I have no reason to yearn for the chance to do it all over.But some good can come from regret. In many ways, it’s useful for others. In advising and mentoring relationships...
Scoop up a few Grammys? Check. Rant about the President on live TV? Check. Launch a line of preppy duds? Check. The next item on rap star KANYE WEST'S to-do list is to create a book in the style of Japanese manga comics with animator Bill Plympton. Plympton, best known for short films that appeared on MTV in the '80s, met West when drawing the raw, smudgy animation for the hip-hop star's video Heard 'Em Say. After the two hit it off, they decided to collaborate on a book based on West's lyrics for Simon...