Word: subways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Times has become a "newspaper" by broadening its appeal. No longer does it smugly boast "Top people read the Times." They still do, but now the paper lures younger and even non-U readers. Billboards and subway posters picturing an overalled mechanic proclaim: "It took Bill Sawyer twelve days to discover that he was a Times reader...
...pieces that make up Paul Bowles's first collection of stories in 17 years read like obituaries of the soul. His characters, robbed of purpose, their spirits rubbed flat, move zombielike through exquisitely desolate landscapes -Moroccan ghettos, Algerian deserts, New York subway tunnels. Displaced in the present, they have vague pasts and menacing futures; sighing despair, they search for something unnameable...
Under the present MBTA plan, Park noted, entrances to the subway would be along Mass. Ave. thus cutting off Brattle and Mt. Auburn Streets and the Kennedy Library from easy access to commuters. "We believe a much improved design can be made available which will serve the public better," he added...
...subway plan would also continue the line up Mass. Ave. to Cambridge Common...
...Mass. Ave. plan was one of four plans submitted to the City by the MBTA. Two of the other plans would have run the subway under Harvard property -- one of them was to have gone under the Radcliffe Yard. Both were not considered acceptable by Harvard...