Word: walking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What does a night watchman do? "Our hours are 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. We're here to help the boys. They forget their keys or their fuses blow. Things come up you don't know about. Every hour we check in with the switchboard. We walk around the building every now and then and then and answer the phone. At one o'clock we lock the Senior and Junior Common Rooms, the library, and the music rooms. I have to lock the Society of Fellows room on Monday night or whenever they have a party...
...class would find no place. Choosing a site proved the initial trial to Harvard University democracy: Gold Coasters pressured for a Massachusetts Avenue site, while Yard dwellers suggested a lot near Memorial Hall. In a gesture of compromise, the building was erected on Quincy Street, a four-minute walk for both rich and poor. The Harvard Union's dedication in 1902 was an impressive display of class and College spirit. Poet Charles Warren breathed...
Porter Square: about a fifteen minute walk north on Massachusetts Ave. from Harvard Square, Porter Square is the major business district for North Cambridge. The MBTA plans to extend its rapid transit to Porter Square (Harvard Square is now the end of the line) but lack of funds has held up the extension...
...have to end. Maybe we should create the campus equivalent of perpetual revolution, a third act to "Marat/Sade" as it were. My own guess is that even the most devoted romantic found the past two weeks taxing, even boring. You get nervous, you can't be alone when you walk the streets, you hear someone mention "confrontation" or "sincerity" and you want to put your hands on your cars and run and run and run. I believe it was George Orwell who said that the problem with socialism is that it takes up too many weekday nights. Well, the problem...
...cancer. The effort of concentrating properly on the crab's requirements makes him weave and shake like a drunk. He is not a drunk; alcohol cannot touch the pain or the concentration that balances it. When the pain becomes so demanding that there is no awareness left to walk with, though, Julian stops at a bar. The barman is deft and quick. To a man who has no past or future to dilute its importance, this skill is wonderful. "The economist wanted to give the barman forty pounds," Kennaway writes. "He was carrying more than that. He wanted...