Word: beers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shut Up Shebeens. There is another reason why there was less heavy drinking in Soweto this Christmas?government-owned beer halls and liquor stores, burned down by students last June in protest against white authority, have not been rebuilt. Moreover, yet another SSRC directive demanded that the hundreds of illegal shebeens (speakeasies) close down during the mourning period. After the fire-bombing of a few that stayed open, the shebeen queens (women operate most speakeasies) duly shut up shop, and Sowetoans did their Christmas drinking quietly at home...
...proposal that would require legislation would be a move to turn Memorial Hall into a coffeehouse or beer hall where members of the Harvard and Cambridge community could meet...
There is some precedence for this move, as task force chairman Stephen Williams, director of the Peabody Museum, related last week. Williams said he liked the proposal because it reminds him of Cronin's, the old-time beer hall that took up much of the property where Holyoke Center stands...
From all recollections Cronin's used to be a Munich-sized beer hall with rows and rows of tables and a long bar, a place that defies duplication in the Square today...
...could provide advice and instruction to student volunteers at Phillips Brooks House, a suggestion with great merit. Perhaps only because of its novelty in a report filled with so much unoriginal thinking, the task force's suggestion that Memorial Hall be turned into a coffee house or a beer hall seems admirable. Such a move would create a meeting place for students and Faculty, something now noticeably lacking in the Square. But an entertaining suggestion should not detract us from concluding that the overall report is uncreative and vague...