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...line is very slow and getting slower. A couple of my ticketless peers are forced to stand in the middle of Holyoke Street, dodging cars. Still, the people ahead of us only need to write down their names and i.d. number and leave. Assuming functional literacy for the general student body, the whole process should take only 10 seconds...
...named for a Zane Grey novel ), a Western-Rock hybrid band that is a sideline for Garcia and one of the Dead's sub-groups. Before the Riders could start a second song, the fire doors at the back of the stage were forced open by a crowd of ticketless Dead seekers who had broken past the police outside to get into the gym; they sprinted into the audience to get away from the guards at the doors. Police grappled with the gate-crashers; the atmosphere of a street fight shot through the area near the stage; finally the police...
These two novellas illustrate how evanescent a Calisher point can be when it is pursued to its core. On the New York-to-Boston train, in The Railway Police, is a woman social worker who wears wigs to hide a hereditary baldness. Seeing a ticketless passenger led away by the railway cops, the social worker abruptly decides to follow his example -to be a vagrant; that is, to exercise "the right to be out of the organized world." Girdle, rings, bank account, wig -everything is abandoned for the park-bench life...
...Lunden sitting in a booth. When I told him I hadn't been able to get my tickets, he said with a dry laugh, "You're only one out of about 2000 students who haven't." To do him justice, he seemed upset by the picture of 2000 ticketless students, but not upset enough to have brought their tickets to the Stadium. Nor was he upset enough to let my date and me into the Stadium unless I paid...
Short-tempered, sweating boatmen struggled to push their sampans and junks close to the fantail of the SS Kiangya, Chinese coastal steamer loading last week at Shanghai for Ningpo. From the cramped decks of the small boats on to the steamer's overhang clambered frantic, ticketless Shanghailanders trying to flee the frightened city. Others clogged the wharves, straining to catch tickets thrown them from portholes by friends already aboard...