Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago, the 1,500-member Coalition of Concerned Women in the War on Crime has launched Operation Whistlestop. When they spot trouble, residents of certain high-crime areas rush to the scene, blowing their whistles. In lower Manhattan, some 135 residents of the East Third Street Block Association are being given a pocket device to carry on the street. When activated, it will set off a loud alarm attached to a nearby building, alerting neighbors to call the police...
...sentenced to state prison at Auburn, N.Y., for killing a desk clerk during an armed robbery of a Manhattan hotel. "I didn't get any help in prison for 20 years, until I met Dan Welty," says Brown. Welty, a prison chaplain who also does psychotherapy, managed to get Brown released after he had served 23½ years. Brown, 47, is now married, has gone through extensive psychotherapy and is a paid official of the Fortune Society, an organization of ex-offenders. Although he was able to profit from meeting Welty, Brown knows that such encounters are rare. "Treatment...
...cheap seats sold for $50, and some front-row spots went for $10,000. At those prices, scarcely a ticket holder failed to appear at last week's Manhattan benefit for the Martha Graham Dance Company. The guest of honor of the evening, which starred Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, was First Lady Betty Ford in a flowing purple Halston gown. She was escorted by Woody Allen in tux and sneakers ("I think those black shoes they have with tuxedos are terrible"). But the evening's most eye-opening costume belonged to Nureyev, who danced his role clad...
...Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, at least nine of the 63 graduates receiving the basic ministry degree are still looking for jobs, and those who have them, notes a placement worker, had to do "a great deal more footwork" than their predecessors. Adds the Rev. Harry Adams, associate dean at the Yale Divinity School: the days are gone when seminary seniors could sit back, "dream up their own things, and find someone to fund them...
...what makes The Twenties not only a memoir but the remarkable, jagged portrait of an era. Vaudeville, Charles Lindbergh, the significance of D.H. Lawrence's small head, lists of slang, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, what it felt like to take a fast taxi ride through Manhattan while drunk, other people's family histories, the woman who kept a pet alligator in her bathtub and hypnotized it until it was limp -all are coolly, sometimes gravely considered...