Word: subways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lurching subway car on New York's ancient IRT line was a meticu lous replica of the real thing, complete with dirty windows and a scurfy litter of candy wrappers on the floor. It had been built from plans furnished by the New York Transit Authority, and set up in a Brooklyn studio for a Du Pont Show of the Week play called "Ride with Terror," by Nicholas Baehr...
...system plays scriptural extracts on a lightweight plastic player whose turntable is spun by a finger-powered lever. But mostly the word is spread by the Society's volunteer workers and colporteurs, hawkers of Holy Writ who carry Bibles, pamphlets and records by donkey and jeep, camel and subway in 123 different countries...
Gallery openings in Manhattan are beginning to rival the opera in silken elegance and the subway for sheer squeeze. Last week's opening of the new Marlborough-Gerson Gallery looked as if it was getting in the last word, if not the entire madding crowd in Michelangelo's Last Judgment. In chilly evening winds, great red and green banners flapped from flagpoles outside the gallery's sixth floor facade above 57th Street. Nothing could dissuade the 2,50 art lovers, beehives and beatle-cuts alike, from donning black tie and white brocade theater coats to come...
Trembling Rich. George Smith is the unlikely name of his daydream figure. Smith is such a man as Manhattan's subway millions have dreamed of being. With nothing but a pad and pencil in Room 604 of a building in Owl Street, somewhere downtown, he makes uncounted millions, and the market shudders at his whim. Like sable-jowled Novelist Donleavy himself, he is dark, saturnine, aloof from human contact. The rich tremble before him; only a few poor whom he selects to honor know his great heart. Contemptuous of woman when lured into sex he is more potent than...
...even the more "normal" students in the Bronx can never forget their college's most distinguishing feature; Hunter is, inescapably, a collection of commuters. Facing east from almost any point on the Bronx branch, one sees the convenient subway tracks only a few blocks away...