Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHOCOLATE, 16, comes from a poor home, is-like many gang boys-illiterate, avoids the subway because he cannot read the station names, is usually half-drunk, has tremendous heart...
...undergrads, Harvard backed up its sales talk with a broadly brushed portrait of what a college education should be: a progression from cocksure ignorance to-at least-thoughtful uncertainty. Reminisced Critic John Mason Brown ('23): "I came as thousands of others have, from the semidarkness of the subway into the blinding sunshine of Cambridge and Harvard and the Yard. I wanted to do something in connection with the theater. At Harvard they produced this one-act play of mine, and the minute I heard the first two lines spoken, I knew that Shakespeare and O'Neill were safe...
...business was not alarmed, neither was the U.S. public, though never had a stumbling economy been so widely discussed or so vigilantly watched. While the recessions of 1949 and 1954 went largely unnoticed, this time it was Topic A from club car to subway strap. It spawned some wry gags, such as the Recession Cocktail...
Your editorial, "Subway Shift," and your news story on commuters indicate that I failed to make myself clear in talking with your reporter. It's not a matter of earth-shaking importance, but since several CRIMSON readers have been puzzled by my reported views, I would appreciate it if you would give me enough space to correct the misunderstanding...
While the dispute raged, the real issue seemed in danger of being lost. Among the teen-agers picked up in Brooklyn alone last week: a 16-year-old boy accused of raping another 13-year-old girl at P.S. 20; six drunks who stabbed two girls in a subway station; 21 boys found with an arsenal of knives, clubs, and wire whips; a 17-year-old boy nabbed while trying to hide a hunting knife under a jukebox; three boys arrested for stealing a car; two boys accused of killing a man of 21; two other 16-year-olds charged...