Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Okay, it's around midnight and you're hungry. What do you do? If you're a true American youth, you'll head for the junk food. And the Square is replete with junk food, particularly that all-American favorite, pizza. Some people, you know, just don't feel their days (or nights) are complete unless they get to fry the roofs of their mouths with hot tomato sauce and gooey cheese. So for those fanatics, and even for normal folks who like to challenge their alimentary canals now and then, here's the scoop on pizzerias in the Square...
...needs movies on a long-distance passenger train? The odyssey provides enough walk-around human drama to fuel a TV series. (It might be called The Off-Broadway Limited.) A young woman, in tears after midnight, confesses that she is going home to Louisiana after a tragic love affair. A black businessman muses somberly on the humiliations that clouded his childhood. A retired railroad executive recounts the great train trips he has made around the world. An elderly waiter talks of the days when he and the rest of the dining-car crew on some routes had to sleep...
...Around midnight, just as the men were about to go to sleep, they were called to the scene of an auto accident in Central Square. Two cars were involved, but only one person was hurt, a woman with a serious head injury. She had no memory of what had transpired just prior to the accident, and there was an amazing scene in the back of the truck on the way to the hospital as she frantically asked her husband what had happened. She was desperate to know and kept saying "tell me, tell me," and her husband held her hand...
...dinner accompanied by endless cups of sake served up by kimonoed geishas. Then the host takes his client to a series of the best of the capital's 80,000 bars and nightclubs. There obliging Cardin-clad hostesses keep the cups brimming with mizuwari (whisky and water). Around midnight the hostesses help their staggering patrons on with their coats and send them off to start another day of more of the same...
...MORE IMPORTANT than any specific institutional structure or tactic, is that students must develop a common consciousness. This consciousness is not just a pretty toy to toss around at midnight gripe sessions. Rather, it must be the inspiration and focus for all direct action at the University. Such common identification is necessary so that whenever students, in the assembly or in the streets, gather to protest any individual policy, or demand some specific redress, they will realize that the problem is much larger. The action they seek must ultimately not only right some immediate wrong, but also strengthen students' rights...