Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Junior Bob Beller of Kirkland House and Brooklyn, N.Y. was elected captain of the varsity basketball team for next year...
Rolling-Eyed Greeks. At Hotchkiss, Luce met Briton Hadden, a fiercely competitive boy from Brooklyn. Hadden became editor of the school paper; Luce (he tried to shake off the nickname "Chink") took charge of the literary magazine. Both excelled in Greek, and Hadden's fondness for such Homeric epithets as "rolling-eyed Greeks" and "far-darting Apollo" prefigured his later introduction of such double adjectives into the young TIME. The two boys did not become close friends until they reached Yale, where Hadden became chairman of the Yale Daily News in his sophomore year, an unusual honor prompted...
Unity for Division. The second scheme, announced by Mayor John Lindsay last week, is really a doubleheader: it starts with 5½ miles of existing Long Island Rail Road tracks in Brooklyn, calls for covering them over first with the proposed Cross Brooklyn Expressway, then placing on top of that a "spine city" of schools and colleges, housing, parks and community facilities. The planners envision shuttle trains and moving sidewalks to carry people to and from the length of the spine, see the linear plan as capable of indefinite extension...
...Expressways tend to divide communities when they cut through them," said Mayor Lindsay, speaking of the Brooklyn project. "But here, a linear city would be a unifying factor instead." The same could as easily be said of the plan to cover over the Park Avenue tracks. Both designs suggest that, in the future, the right side of the tracks to live on will be in one direction...
...celebrated movie starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift. One of the best stories, Fitter's Night, has a sibling relationship to Miller's 1955 Broadway play, A View from the Bridge. It describes the life and hilarious hard times of Tony Calabrese, shipfitter in the Brooklyn Navy Yard...