Word: wordsworth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever shopped at Wordsworth in the Square or Barney's downtown (Barnes & Noble, that is), you've probably seen small packs of high schoolers weaving their bookbags through the aisles, reading bookjackets and mispronouncing "Neitzsche." That was me, seven or eight years ago, trying to become au courant.Those girls walking around the North End with bangs towering over their spiroperms? I went to their proms. I literally can't turn around without bumping into one memory or another. And while I'm still imploring friends to move into town, I think I might be ready to move...
What was different about the late '60s was thatour elders listened to us, nodded their heads atout vulgar Marxism or whatever it was and said,"Right on!" They put us on the cover of Time. Theybelieved that Wordsworth stuff about "The child isthe father...
...Wordsworth: This otherwise extensive bookstore has no separate romance section either. A few Danielle Steel novels and an assortment of Judith Krantz's are scattered in the fiction section, but one staffer told FM that the store has "hardly any romances, compared to a chainstore like Barnes & Noble or Waldenbooks...
...season to stand in the Coop, Urban Outfitters, Wordsworth Abridged or some other card-vending establishment and make some decisions...
...instance--I'veforgotten the author--the relatively recent workEverything I Needed to Know I Learned From MyCat. But maybe I am too quick to reveal mypreferences. This book has the winningillustrations of its type; they might amuse ornauseate you. The book is good for a quickflip-through in Wordsworth, or perhaps as a giftfor a certain kind of disaffected female friend