Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dream? The streets were full of happy drunks, but even those who had not touched a drop seemed high?gripped by a crisis-born spirit of camaraderie and exhilaration. In Brooklyn, a meat market donated a whole pig to a neighboring convent, thus providing everybody for blocks around with a snack of roast pork. Manhattan's Four Seasons Restaurant, where prices are rarely mentioned because so few would believe them, dispensed soup free of charge; at "21," where the only drink on the house is water, they passed out steak sandwiches and free libations without limit...
...church's rule against married clergy. Readers also provide most of the items for "Cry Pax!", a weekly column noting with deadpan wit the latest in churchly foibles-such as that the movie Rotten to the Core was approved by the Legion of Decency, or that a Brooklyn firm sold costumes modeled after the garb of priests, bishops and nuns for trick-or-treating children to wear in celebration of "the religious meaning" of Halloween...
...Smile, Earl!" commanded the photographer in a nasal Brooklyn accent...
...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. The limited agonies and ecstasies of a Brooklyn longshoreman and his family are the fabric for Arthur Miller's tapestry of domestic tragedy...
During the early months of his campaign, Lindsay even went politicking at Brooklyn's Brighton Beach in bathing trunks, grinning and shouldering his way bare-chested through the crowds-just as President Kennedy had done on a California beach in 1962. Lindsay eventually carried his activities beyond the beach; he continued to seek hands to shake among a few startled citizens while he was nude in the dressing-room shower...