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Admittedly, the director had to work with some very amateur actors. Ray Gozzi, as the unalcoholic brother, was particularly weak. When he declaimed "I've been through a lot in life," in the very tone that one uses for "I've been to the Bick for an English," the play reaches a nadir...

Author: By Charles S. Whitman, | Title: Eighth Day of the Week | 4/15/1963 | See Source »

After the rally, the participants staged a small riot in front of the Bick (where else?). The difference between a rally and a riot is that a riot doesn't involve the Harvard Band, Glee Club, or Bach Society in any formal capacity and takes place in front of the Bick instead of Widener...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: Football Fans Stirred by Pep Rally; Two Arrested in Gathering at 'Bick' | 11/24/1962 | See Source »

...Story Thus Far: Biff Bundie, University undercover man disguised as graduate student Kevin Stoddard Heath came into possession of a mysterious book bag when he was bumped into by a strange foreign man. As the Bick he opened the bag to find a sinister notebook, a library book ("The Secret Plants of Ancient Egypt"), and a small box containing a hypodermic needle and a white card on which was printed a Roman numeral seven enclosed by a circle. Suddenly Biff discovered he was being watched by a suspicious man who introduced himself as Doctor Drugg. Drugg persuaded Bundie to walk...

Author: By H. Lewiss, | Title: Biff Bundie, University Cop, in 'The Circle of Seven' | 5/1/1962 | See Source »

Before he knew it, he arrived Bick on Massachusetts was sitting over a cup of coffee newly acquired possession look at him from the table...

Author: By H. Lewiss, | Title: BIFF BUNDIE, UNIVERSITY COP in THE CIRCLE OF 7 | 4/21/1962 | See Source »

Albiani's alone remains untouched. Even before the walls of Waldorf's sprouted abstract, wrough-iron nudes, and the quaint ugliness of the Bick underwent renovation, this cafeteria could afford the most modern facade on the square. Hayes-Bick and Waldorf's have unjustly overburdened the Cambridge consumer. If Albiani's, with its admirable ratio of empty tables to people manages without a minimum, so can the other cafeterias...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dime Was | 1/8/1962 | See Source »

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