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Radcliffe was still in part a commuter college when I was there; perhaps half my class came by streetcar or subway from Boston, the Newtons, Dorchester, or Cambridge. The rest lived in dormitories presided over by house mistresses and were waited on at table by maids in white aprons and caps...
DIED. Benjamin E. Mays, 89, civil rights advocate and president (1940-67) of Morehouse College, a leading black educational institution; in Atlanta. The son of sharecroppers, Mays once told his students, "They can make you sit in the back of the streetcar, but no one can confine a mind." One Morehouse graduate who took that advice to heart was the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who called Mays "my spiritual mentor and my intellectual father...
Buffalo also hopes to lure new riders with its 6.4-mile Light Rail Rapid Transit (LRRT) system, an unconventional marriage of streetcar and subway technologies that is costing $500 million from state and federal treasuries. The initial 1.2-mile street-level segment, scheduled to open some time this year, will cut through a ten-block-long mall in the city's central commercial district that will be closed to most other traffic. Trips within the transit mall will be free, giving shoppers an incentive to patronize downtown businesses...
PLAYS WRITTEN BY Tennessee Williams reek of viciousness, violence, and sexual tension. Some of his most famous characters--Amanda in The Glass Menagerie and Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire--struggle with self-control and eventually find themselves unable to distinguish fantasy from reality. The characters in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, however, face an unmistakingly real existence controlled by alcoholism, latent homosexuality, and insatiable desire and greed. A successful production of any Williams play requires an intimate understanding of the underlying themes and a willingness to confront them straight on without embellishing the lines with sappy overacting...
...onnagata, "he says, "is to try to create an ideal; what I as a man would consider to be the ideal woman." Bando has also done non-Kabuki work, including heralded performances as Lady Macbeth and Desdemona. But his dream role was created by Tennessee Williams in A Streetcar Named Desire. Blanche DuBois, of course...