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...nice place to get quietly bombed is the Blue Parrot (123 Mt. Auburn St.). The sangria is so good and refreshing you can drink it like water and the music is softly calming (although canned). A little louder is the Casablanca (40 Brattle St.), and a little hokier the Toga Lounge (1274 Mass Ave), but both can get you smashed without spending a fortune. Cronin's (114 Mt. Auburn St.), a traditional Harvard beer-drinking establishment, should be avoided because of the owner's intransigence is a dispute with a newly-formed waitresses' union which has protested the restaurant...
Plautus was the Neil Simon of Rome. When the tired businessman of the Eternal City trudged home from his officina on one of the seven hills in his sweat-stained toga and quaffed a quick goblet of Falernian, his wife probably said, "Carissime, in thealrum eamus...
...Shklar's accutely European sensibilities (she was born in Latvia in 1928) would wince at these crass Americanisms concerning her qualities, but she needs little drawing out to corroborate the views generally held of her. Rushing from her office in Widener to a hasty lunch in the Toga Lounge, greeting colleagues along the way with little jokes and genuinely interested questions, she stays well within the dialogue of an interview-situation in the meantime. Biting into a sandwich she looks up to find a teaching assistant who is also eating there, consults with him on some impressive sounding paper topics...
...there when it happened," said John G. Chaprales, manager of the Toga Lounge. "I couldn't sleep for three nights afterward. I've been here for 22 years and it's never been like this before. It could've been...
...matter of fact, those same guys were in the Toga around a month ago and did the same thing. I tried to handle the thing gently and not to push it. They left, Van would probably be alive today if he hadn't thrown them out," Chaprales added...