Word: brunched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gratin too early. Well, we like our cauliflower au gratin cooked right just as much as the next guy, but we can't help doffing our hats to that feisty shop steward who set the Food Services on their ear for a couple of months. Holcombe's suspension inspired brunch boycotts, demonstrations, and the most protracted rash of protest song-writing at Harvard since the sixties expired. At the height of the Holcombe controversy, signs appeared throughout the University announcing a special benefit concert for the beleaguered shop steward, featuring Bob Dylan and Arlo Guthrie. Well, Dylan and Guthrie never...
...match for the absurdities of modern life. Give him the latest fad, the most flaccidly permissive excuse for current thought, and he will top it nearly every time. With-it Protestantism? De Vries offers a minister who does impressions of movie stars from the pulpit and later throws a brunch at the "Après Church." The new amorality? He comes up with a mother who boasts that her unmarried daughter is having "one of those no-fault pregnancies." The macho style in Washington politics? "When the tough get going," De Vries notes innocently, "the going gets tough...
...undersigned residents of North House, would like to protest The Crimson's distortion of the North House brunch boycott in support of Sherman Holcombe, suspended shop steward for the Radcliffe dining halls...
...Sunday, only 23 of a possible 300 students ate brunch in the dining halls serviced by the North House kitchen, ostensibly in protest of Holcombe's suspension--many of the students who observed it said they did so more because of peer pressure than deep-seated conviction...
...workers, and a number of students have spoken out in his case to date. Powers has taken Holcombe and Balsam to task for attacking the suspension with a "publicity barrage." It remains doubtful, however, just how effective such actions, as the student boycott of Sunday's North House brunch, which many of the participants said they took part in because of peer pressure, will be in the long...