Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pleasantest places in the Square to waste an idle hour or so in conversation and looking around is Schuster's Art Gallery on Palmer Street, behind the Coop. The Gallery is in the loft of an old paint shop and it bears many scars of its early career. Ethereal verse occasionally seeps through the wall from the Poet's Theatre and various raven-haired avant-garde types waft in and out on various clouds...
Stores which so far will honor the club's credit cards are Chez Dreyfus and the Treeland Flower Shop in Cambridge; Simon and Sons Clothiers in Boston; Jack Williams Magic Gardens in Fresh Pond; Monticello Rest on Route 9; Robin Hood's Ten Acres on Route 20; and the Beacon Liquor Corporation in Brighton...
...Ordered Diet. In the classroom, the six schools require comprehensive liberal-arts and science courses, then give students a chance to do independent work if they are willing and able. "We don't allow our students to shop cafeteria style," says Dr. A. Blair Knapp, Denison's chain-smoking, crew-cut president. Since 1948 Denison has fed its students a heavy diet of such broad courses as "Basic Philosophic and Religious Ideas" and "History of Western Civilization...
...world with very little show of conscience. Yet, though Moravia's characters lack conscience-though they are bent on mean personal advantage and are forever trying to trip their fellows into the gutter-they are all also victims themselves. In Taboo, a story about a shop clerk who steals his friend's girl with fancy talk of his own mysterious powers. Author Moravia suggests his moral: the poor must resign themselves to being cheated. The best of the 27 stories is The Girl from Ciociaria, about a simple peasant wench who works as a maid for a professor...
Goldman doesn't think about retirement. 'I've been in business in Cambridge for about 60 years. The store I have now is just something to do. I like to keep busy. I have a lot of land behind the shop. But nothing will be sold as long as I am alive." Goldman shrugs when asked if he has done well here; "Just making a living," he replies...