Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commuter on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad is a Kafkaesque character who rides out his days of penance on a train. His pendulous life is governed by back-room fortunetellers who write and rewrite the timetables. His journey is shepherded by faceless men in visored hats who carry metal beetles that chew up tickets and disgorge the microscopic confetti on the vests of the witless passengers. He knows not what his sins are; he just lives in the dim suspicion that at some Last Stop the Great Dispatcher will explain everything. But he never gets there; imprisoned aboard...
...train stopped, with the undercarriage of one car on fire. The passengers scuttled into other cars while trainmen vainly sprayed away with hand extinguishers...
Lewis's assertion that the country is at war was needed to rescue a train of logic that began when he agreed that the college students in last May's San Francisco demonstrations against the HUAC were "verging on treason." Then he defined treason as "aiding and abetting the enemy in time of war," and added, "Well, we call it a cold...
Dolci is in this country seeking trained personnel (especially anthropologists interested in cushioning the impact of technology), advice, and financial aid. Characteristically, he rejects offers of volunteers without some special skills: "the Peace Corps is sending five people over to us, but it is to train them, not to help us." He is disappointed with the lack of any current regional planning projects in America--"you had TVA once, but that is over...
Saturday, the squad voted to continue its spring training trip and will leave by plane or train tomorrow, when Yale begins its spring vacation...