Word: cantabrigian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...around Harvard, but critics feel that cars, even if they move faster for awhile, still get caught in the same old bottleneck in Harvard Square. Complaining letters flow in the Cambridge Chronicle. Even poets take their crack at Rudolph. In April, a poem by a senior citizen and longtime Cantabrigian" appeared in the Chronicle. In this poem Paul Revere, on a second ride, got lost in the Traffic Director's latest pattern. Rudolph was moved to respond in kind, and an exchange of poems began in the paper. The Traffic Director's latest work ended like this...
...mock-minatory farewell address to London's Pilgrims Society, Britain's new Ambassador to the U.S., jolly, Cambridge-educated Sir Patrick Dean, 56, noted that the only other Cantabrigian to have represented the Crown in Washington was Sir Edward Thornton, who clung to the post for 14 years (1867-81), longer than any other British diplomat. Said Sir Patrick: "You have been warned...
Faces of Men. The Affair often moves at the maddening pace of a ruminative pipe smoker between puffs. No social pigeon can escape Snow's passion for pigeonholing. However, no one can quite match Cantabrigian Snow at making an old school seem both old and a school. At rare moments, The Affair is even a touch exalted, as when a quavering nonagenarian don suddenly trumpets the underlying theme of the book: "Go now and do justice. If you can temper justice with mercy, do so. But go and do justice...