Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason for the government's indifference is that it favors the government owned railway system, which has inaugurated a plan to provide auto-train accommodation for motorists going south or returning. Under the plan the autos are placed on freight cars while their drivers sleep in passenger cars on the same train. When the service was extended to five new cities last fall, a jokester writing in Le Figaro saw it as a step toward the ultimate solution of driving problems in France. By hauling cars everywhere by rail, he pointed out, there would be an end to highway...
Berliners are forever finding new ways to frustrate Communist rules and punch holes in the ugly Red Wall. The latest stunt is a lot more expensive than leaping over barbed wire but a lot safer than dodging Vopo bullets. All it takes is a holiday train ticket to another Iron Curtain country...
Many Communist regimes are hungry enough for hard Western currency to relax travel restrictions and look the other way when East and West Berlin families gather for reunions counter to East German rules. When the night train from East Berlin pulls into Budapest's Keleti Talyaudvar (East Station), the platform scenes are moving replays of those that took place over the Christmas holidays in Berlin itself. Sweethearts fall into soundless clinches; old people weep as they see their grandchildren for the first time...
...Streectar (1947), Williams has operated below peak form. He has offered a stream of new and rewritten works--a dozen of them--but only in parts of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the old mastery evident. Earlier this month a revised version of Tinkerer Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More failed as decisively as had its previous version a year ago. More and more people are suspecting that Williams has been a burned-out writer for a long time; and many of these date the demise from the time Williams started undergoing psychoanalysis...
...American consciousness, moving from innocence to experience (a theme that preoccupied him in his fictionalized autobiography, Ushant). But story and symbol never meet, with the result that cascades of imagery and torrents of metaphor are expended on events that have all the inherent drama of a railroad timetable. The train pulls into the town of Galion, Ohio, and Blomberg is jolted awake: "Galion! They had come to Galion; this point in chaos and eternal night was Galion." To Blomberg, the trip signifies that she is "taking her heart as an offering to the bloodstained altar of the plumed serpent...