Word: subway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DUTCHMAN, by LeRoi Jones. In a New York subway car, a white girl who is a twitchy, neurotic bundle of well-informed cliches and sterile sexual aggressions, lures, taunts, degrades and destroys a Negro in a Brooks Brothers shirt, but not before he tells her, with profane and explicit brutality, how much Negroes hate whites. Though his one-acter repeats the pattern of Albee's The Zoo Story, Jones captures the contemporary mood of violence with raw and nerve-tingling fury...
...first, the Brooklyn group's effort seemed about to live up to its nightmarish prospects. Early in the morning, some demonstrators tried to keep a subway train from moving by holding the doors open. A cop batted their hands with his night stick, the doors closed, and the train moved...
...Maryland, Pennsylvania and Chicago were said to be on the way to New York. Brunson boasted that no fewer than 2,000 cars would stop dead on the highways. His demonstrators would slow down ticket lines at the fair by paying 199 pennies for the $2 admission. The city subway system would be paralyzed by 6 a.m., and the major highway approaches to the fair by 7:30 a.m. An airplane would fly over the fair and drop thousands of leaflets protesting discrimination, and a Harlem contingent would collect hundreds of live rats in the slums and release them into...
...Subway. New York officials laid their own plans accordingly. Police leaves were canceled, cops and tow trucks were assigned stations along the highways and bridges. Transit Authority police, who guard the subway system, were given posts in key trains and subway stations...
...women and children pouring over by helicopter, hydrofoil, excursion steamer, automobile, bus, train and subway to push through the new fair's 89 turnstiles can see at once that, first and foremost, they are expected to enjoy themselves. This is no sobersided Park of Culture and Rest, but a fantastical medley of outrageous shapes and sizes-soaring planes and flying disks, strutted plastic and fretted steel, domes, pylons, floating cubes, and color everywhere. It is a place to ride a monorail and something called a People Wall, watch a hula, listen to a steel band, eat your head...