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Sunday, January 9--A super day for bowls, but a foul one for meals. You just knew the week would be a lulu when the scrambled eggs for brunch required a straw instead of a fork...
...thing out of the way immediately: by general consensus, Locke-Ober's in Boston is the best restaurant in this section of the country, at $15 a person. See you and your parents over at Anthony's Pier Four tonight, and likewise for brunch next Sunday at the Prudential Building's Top of the Hub, where bloody Marys and eggs abound at a moderately high expense. For the same meal, local hacks say, the Newton Marriott has everyone beat, with its endless and relatively cheap supply of bagels...
...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...