Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beans, Beef, and Bourbon is a book about 100 restaurants, in Boston, which according to a Business school student named Riker, serve good food. It didn't sound very promising, but the voice insisted that if we came to the 'press-conference,' we would not only get a story, but lots of good Manhattans and a chance to talk to a lot of important people. So we went, to Cobb's Restaurant, 32 Tremont...
Moskowitz's group will work together with the existing Inter-House Foods Committee, which is not responsible to the Council. The group will present a report to the Council and the student body, no later than May, on University purchasing, food preparation, and menu planning...
...spite of the campus' growth, the division still stands by that 1950 report. Once, when Mather appealed for extra hands to help with the school of agriculture's bumper crop, the division said no. The crop rotted, and at considerable expense the university had to buy its food on the open market. All in all, the setup has been so suffocating that the Phi Beta Kappa senate has refused to charter a university chapter...
...elected by the people, nor by old-line machine bosses like The Last Hurrah's Frank Skeffington (see above), but by slick advertising boys on Madison Avenue. A candidate will be pretested and merchandised like "a can of beer, a squeeze tube of deodorant, a can of dog food...
Critic Pritchett concedes that Joyce had humor and "the imagination to turn his squalid people into giants first. No one can say that the characters of Ulysses are trivial in dimension, even though their preoccupations are mean, food-stained, dreary and unelevating. His people are Celtic monsters, encumbered by the squalor of their enormous burden of fleshly life-enormous because it is so detailed-and the dreadful, slow, image-spawning of their literal minds . . . One can see that, in Joyce's imitators, the interior monologue was a blow for democracy, a rather dreary one; the fact that...