Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tragic shooting took place as the President's motorcade was leaving downtown Dallas on his way to a speech at the Dallas Trade Mart. Kennedy and Connally were riding in the President's bubble-top limousion. The top was left open...
Trembling Rich. George Smith is the unlikely name of his daydream figure. Smith is such a man as Manhattan's subway millions have dreamed of being. With nothing but a pad and pencil in Room 604 of a building in Owl Street, somewhere downtown, he makes uncounted millions, and the market shudders at his whim. Like sable-jowled Novelist Donleavy himself, he is dark, saturnine, aloof from human contact. The rich tremble before him; only a few poor whom he selects to honor know his great heart. Contemptuous of woman when lured into sex he is more potent than...
Tension and discontent characterize the Park Avenue "campus," a rather amusing word to most students. A college handbook describes the tall building which comprises "Hunter downtown" as a "vertical campus." Students are franker: "this is like going to school in an office building...
...addition, only women attend the Park Avenue campus. This accounts for the tremendous marriage consciousness. The girls seem preoccupied with getting married--and resent Hunter because it provides no prospective husbands. In fact, the downtown student appears to regard marriage as her primary goal, for many come from families where an early wedding--not a college education--is a normal...
...CUMMINGS-Downtown Gallery, 32 East 51st St. The poet and typographical eccentric was also a painter, but the influences of Van Gogh, Picasso and Kandinsky on the 40-odd paintings in this show suggest that Cummings put his most original ideas into print. Also at Downtown, some paintings by Ben Shahn done as set designs for Cummings' play HIM. Through...