Word: uptown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavy car sways on tracks uptown to Columbia Jack no more'll step off at Penn Station
...Dead grew up as a band in the center of a diffuse, many-sided movement that, taken as a whole, has been called the San Francisco hip scene. Jerry Garcia ("Captain Trips" or "the Guru," now 31 years old) started out in Palo Alto, California, with Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Band. In 1964, with two of the jug-band members and two others, he formed the Warlocks, a loud rock-and-roll band that soon became the Grateful Dead. They played at many of the first large rock dances in the Bay Area; they played the Acid Test, high...
...Uptown, where the ties to colonial New York are not as strong, the problem is different. There, New York's architects began construction in 1891 of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, which they intended as one of the great cathedrals of Christendom...
...Dustin Hoffman. It also has nurtured writing talents like Edward Albee, who gave Producer Barr two of his off-Broadway hits. Barr's third was The Boys in the Band, which has netted its backers a 1,750% return already. Other notable off-Broadway successes: Hair (now uptown), The Fantasticks and The Threepenny Opera...
...LAST, the March: I hurry first the wrong way along Fifth Ave., heading uptown to join the marchers waiting at the 60th St. entrance to Central Park. The march down Fifth Ave, is scheduled to begin at 5:30; 5 p. m. now and my feet hurt. Already the crowds fill the street, lining up along sidewalks behind police lines, waiting to watch. "Madness, confusion, police clearing streets," I write in my little notebook. A young boy, 13 or 14, is defending the women passionately toa group of angry men, all shouting at him. He grins at me when...