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Such fare will make it no favorite with Harvard sectionmen and no rival to the lackluster Lehman Hall. Nor will As You Like It supplant the once legendary University Restaurant - which a year or two back donned a toga, added a lounge, raised the prices, and drove the coffee-dawdling academics out of the building. Veteran junior faculty, though, still pine for those good old days when you could drop into University Restaurant at 11:30 a.m. and find Bailyn in one corner dazzling his listeners or Banfield in another corner infuriating his. Well, that's what they remember. That...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: The Square As You Like It | 12/8/1970 | See Source »

Somewhat more expensive than the aforementioned are our final group. The Wursthaus (4 Boylston St.) has German American food and crowded atmosphere. The Toga (Mass Ave. by Briggs and Briggs) has sandwiches and above, of basic American variety. Buddy's Sirloin Pit (Brattle St. across from the Theatre) is just what the name implies. Charley's Kitchen (10 Eliot St.) plays the Red Sox games on the radio and has good sandwiches. Cronin's (114 Mt. Auburn St.) is also good...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Cosmic Laughs in the Square | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...theme of Expo '70 is progress and harmony, but last week the fairgrounds seemed to reflect paltry progress and considerable confusion. Workmen darted among unfinished buildings. Girl guides drilled in mini-toga uniforms. Postmen roared around on scarlet scooters, learning their routes. Policemen studied plans for coping with the expected influx of pickpockets and prostitutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Expo '70: Osaka's $2 Billion Blowout | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...Swiss shower, a kind of liquefied Iron Maiden. You stand surrounded by a firing squad of nozzles and whooosh!-needle-like jetsprays of chilling water riddle you from 16 different directions. "That," says a gentleman technician, helping you into a gold terry-cloth toga, "ought to get the old blood circulating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: In Search of the New You | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...THAT THE Revolution has resolved itself into scheduled meetings, you can stop carrying around bag lunches and try out something new. The Yard of Ale has given its site over to ZumZum and the University Restaurant has been remodeled, combining its Greek-oriented cuisine with a plush and pretentious Toga Lounge for cocktails...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Zum-Zum, UR | 5/8/1969 | See Source »

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