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Both the Mass Ave and the Cape Cod Mall branches of Belgian Fudge closed on December 31. Lisa Lorentzian, the store' accountant, said yesterday she will not know until today when--or if--the stores will reopen. The financially troubled chain filed for bankruptcy in April and closed nine stores...
...Belgian Fudge stays closed many Harvard Square residents and students will probably miss the crumbles in Oreo Cookie or the candy in Vanilla Belgian Fudge. But other Square ice cream stores are not sorry. "When Belgian Fudge first opened up, we lost a definite percentage of our business right away," Ed Pershouse, an employee of Baskin-Robbins, said yesterday. "The hope is that we might gain that business back," he added...
...your piece on the hopes and fears of new arrivals at Ellis Island [Dec. 15]: Ten years ago, along with my Belgian family, I entered this great country as an immigrant aboard a Boeing 707 jet; we debarked safely at New York's J.F.K. International Airport, no questions asked. America, I love...
...love Viet Nam and opium during the last years of French occupation and spent 24 nervous hours at the doomed camp of Dien Bien Phu. Then it was on to Kenya for the Mau Mau uprising and later to a leper colony during the final days of the Belgian Congo. He sampled pornography in Batista's Havana, just before Castro and his forces came down from the hills. He fetched up in "Papa Doc" Duvalier's Haiti in 1963 and found himself under Egyptian gunfire in Israel in 1967. It would be hard to think of a contemporary...
...much crispness of language. His Collected Poems 1944-1979 is, as any bag of 35 years' worth of anything has every right to be, a bit of a hodge podge. There are some prematurely-greying early works of some elegance, rather reminiscent of early Philip Larkin or John Wain ("Belgian Winter," "Retrospect"); there is some doggerel ("Fair Shares for All"); there is some sophomoric drivel ("Toys," "Report"); there are fine things ("Science Fiction," "A Song of Experience"--the latter with witty, well-crafted verses like "He tried all colours, white and black, and coffee/Though quite a few were chary, more...