Word: plethora
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drug store, cash machine, parking garage. In actuality, the absence of these so-called amenities promotes a more relaxed lifestyle. In Europe, as in the Quad, a sense of community flourishes at a safe distance from standard consumer hubbub. Out here on the margins, our residential society supports a plethora of family-owned businesses and small restaurants, rather than the massive chain stores that dominate and corrupt the capitalist cosmopolitan environment...
...carefully plotted out my return, planning to party in Boston every weekend "once I turn 21." Now that a month has passed since that grand day, I do not find myself reveling in the pleasures of my newfound legality, but griping about loud music, extreme heat and the plethora of underage men and over-made up women. Now that my roommates and I have finally escaped the confines of Cambridge to explore the hopping nightlife of the city across the river, I find myself longing to return to the familiarity of the Square establishments or the solitude of our room...
...carefully plotted out my return, planning to party in Boston every weekend "once I turn 21." Now that a month has passed since that grand day, I do not find myself reveling in the pleasures of my newfound legality, but griping about loud music, extreme heat and the plethora of underage men and over-made up women. Now that my roommates and I have finally escaped the confines of Cambridge to explore the hopping nightlife of the city across the river, I find myself longing to return to the familiarity of the Square establishments or the solitude of our room...
...shame to realize that relatively few student bands exist on campus compared to the yawn-inspiring plethora of a capella groups and orchestras. For every 500 chartreuse posters proclaiming another bee-bop doo-wop smile-and-tear fest, there may be at most one piece of paper trumpeting the latest experimentalist musical incarnation or student rock group. In general, Harvard students are content performing and interpreting compositions from oldies pop icons and classical composers, and fellow students are happy to shell out financial support to perpetuate this comfortable culture. But the number of students interested in creating music for collegiate...
...those who haven't jumped on a 10-10-whatever train or discovered the plethora of discount phone cards available at the Prem La Market on Mt. Auburn Street, the campus phone bill is a monthly test of a sufficiently endowed BankBoston account. But the thieves don't stop there: the true BIG rip-off regarding the on-campus phone bill is actually found not within--but stuck on the envelope...