Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no way to describe the greasy, sticky, feeling of self-loathing that seeps into your skin on a Trailways Bus from Boston to Daytona Beach, Florida. No adjectives sufficiently apply. This feeling is more like an instinct, akin to that of a snake struggling out of its skin...
...fellas, its Spring Break," the fraternity types announced to the world, and fled the moldy bus for the neon-cluttered streets of Daytona Beach. They argued where they would go first to have fun--the pinball arcade? the amusement park? the Burger King? the Beachcomber Disco? the motel? And then an idea. THE SOUVENIR SHOP. But this was too difficult--there is a souvenir shop on every other block in Daytona Beach, and no good fraternity man can render a decision of such discretion at short notice. So they went out to the parking lot of the bus station...
...goes to prove that fraternity men--lost in a maze of Greek symbols--have no instincts, just pranks. For in this eyesore of an American city, there is only one home beyond the bright cars and bars and stars and stores and doors and store 24s--the beach. Daytona's only redeeming feature. Perhaps the only reddeming factor for any American city. The only place in America's officious urban character where the lonely can find the lonely, the troubled can listen to peace, and the hot and frenzied can relax...
...papers the next day: nearly 600 charged with criminal tresspassing in the largest act of anti-nuclear in the largest act of anti-nuclear civil disobedience since "the Seabrook 1414" in April 1977, and over 15,000 at a separate legal rally held on a strip of beach a mile from the Shoreham reactor...
...would attempt to convince you that nuclear power was not only dangerous, it was racist, sexist, militaristic, anti-gay and a tool of imperialist capitalistic corporate exploitation as well. Then past tables filled with anti-nuke and alternative energy literature and finally down a dirt path to the beach, were old reliables like Dave Dellinger, former anti-war activist, and George Wald, Emeritus Professor of Biology, would speak and Pete Seeger and others entertain. Just before noon, a sign reading "Plutonium Is Leaking!" was unfurled, but the only visible emission came from the skies, as the rains began; protesters, police...