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...most basic job of the office is to set priorities for the University then go out and test them against real world priorities," UDO Director Thomas P. Reardon '60 says. "Development forces the University to carefully examine its priorities because there is only so much money...
...always had more than our fair share of members of the Congress," said John P. Reardon Jr. '60, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association. "We've had very large numbers of people, especially in the last 30-40 years...
Their common devotion to "the pleasures of the table" pervades Reardon's book--itself a satisfying read, and in its spirit an antidote to the taste-blind dining hall...
...glimmer of history is strongest in Reardon's portrait of Waters, proprietor of the Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse. In the 60's, as part of Berkeley's student radical movement, she cooked for her fellow activists and published recipes in a leftist tabloid. She opened her restaurant in 1971. A $5 meal included main dish, wine, salad, and a showing of a Marcel Pagnol film...
...youngest of the three women in Reardon's book. Waters is featured last, her story playing dessert as Fisher's did hors d'ocuvre. But the entree, naturally, is Reardon's portrait of Julia Child, the six foot tall throaty-voiced diva who brought bouillabaise to thousands of living rooms. Julia--who in college wanted to be either a novelist or a professional basketball player and liked to perform tom-tom dances, who sought during WWII to be trained as a spy and was eventually posted to Ceylon, who finally turned to cooking--Julia dominates the book...