Word: subway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York is the overwhelming, rich and powerful woman, the pacesetter and arbiter of national taste, a woman of contrasts whose feet are planted firmly in the subway while her tiara punches the clouds. On the shore of Lake Michigan stands big-shouldered Chicago, a gambling man, a gandy dancer, a latter-day John Bunyan whose self-conscious gazes into his mirror reflect the pride and simplicity of the U.S. heartland. There is intellectual Boston, a lady of quality with whalebone traditions, who has hitched up her skirt and gone to work without losing her manners, keeping her balance with...
...rapidly reversed. Yet the pontifical Mr. Mahoney stated yesterday, "I will not be a party to any hastily contrived and poorly disguised effort by Mayor Wagner to sacrifice the passengers and the employees of the Fifth Avenue Coach Lines in preparation for a 20-cent fare on all the subway and bus lines operating in New York...
...noisy, loaded with banal aggression, The Beat Generation in the U.S. and the "Teddy-bards" in Britain have put poetry in the news for the first time since the '20s. ("The Beats have taken poetry out of the academic study," says one critic, "and put it in the subway restroom.") And the success of the uncouth has encouraged the couth, who are slowly but inevitably developing a new poetic tone, a tone less clever than Auden, more direct than Eliot, more worldly and less personal than Thomas, a conversational but careful tone in which important things can be simply...
Just before the demonstration broke up with a march to the Park Street subway, Tony Marquez, a veteran opponent of disarmament groups, passed out literature criticizing their proposals...
...wintertime, the shapka requires some daring from its wearers. For, though the hat is worn all through Scandinavia as well as in Russia, many Americans associate it with Communism and the cold war. In Manhattan last year, a man in a shapka got on a subway train and sat down, whereupon a woman near by hissed: "Goddam foreigners!" He never wore his shapka again...