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...story of the Square is a neverending saga of independently owned shops (J. F. Olsson & Co., The Bookcase, Reading International) that succumb to high rents, only to be replaced by trendy yuppie huts (The Body Shop, Origins, WordsWorth Abridged). "The Shops by Harvard Yard" is only the latest installment. And every time another landlord drops out of the Harvard Square rat race, we compose another elegy to a neighborhood whose character is quickly fading...
...which works on UNIX as well as PCs and Macs, I'd suggest two books: TeX for the Impatient, by Paul Abrahams, et al., is an excellent primer. For a complete description of TeX's functionalities, you should consult Knuth's authoritative TeXtbook. Both are available at Wordsworth...
...Wordsworth reading in Cambridge you spoke about how Rush Limbaugh has turned into sort of a cult figure for many of his listeners. Leaving the cult aspect aside, he does have the sort of humorous maverick style that appeals to many young people...
...poetic impulse. The calculated isolation, the lack of commitment were what enabled , him to write what little he did (four volumes in 40 years), just as the fate of the mockingly ironic outsider was his persistent subject. As he put it, "Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth." Characteristically, he declined the post of poet laureate, but by the time he died of cancer at 63 in 1985, he had become a sort of grumpy unofficial laureate of all that was middling, thwarted and humorously stoic in the contemporary psyche...
...expected you to look more like the picture on the back of the book," I blurted stupidly, eyeing the rather petite, ordinary looking woman who met me in Wordsworth Books...