Word: greenwich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while he was still finishing high school, Springsteen began forming bands like the Castiles, which did gigs for short money in a Greenwich Village spot called the Cafe Wha?. He met up with Miami Steve Van Zandt, current lead guitarist of the E Street Band, around that time. "We were all playing anything we could to be part of the scene," Van Zandt recalls. "West Coast stuff, the English thing, R&B and blues. Bruce was writing five or ten songs a week. He would say, 'I'm gonna go home tonight and write a great song...
...play opens with a newscast of President Kennedy's assassination. The lights come up inside a bar in Greenwich Village. One by one the characters enter and introduce themselves in monologue. A middle-aged Kennedy devotee speaks only of "Camelot" and Dallas; a veteran tries to make sense of his Vietnam experiences; a young activist traces her life through riots and causes; a homosexual actor laments the "the good old days" of the Village underground; a starlet-turned-prostitute recounts her fourteen years mourning Marilyn Monroe's suicide. The play continues in a series of monologues: paralyzed by depression...
Brownmiller lives alone in an "early bourgeois" Greenwich Village apartment, leads a spartan, work-centered life and has no hobbies. A native of Brooklyn, Brownmiller attended Cornell, leaving before graduation to study acting in Manhattan. She appeared in two off-Broadway plays and worked as a Newsweek researcher. Studying nights at the Jefferson School of Social Science, she took a course taught by Herbert Aptheker, the American Communist historian and specialist in Southern studies. In the historian's thunderous lectures on white exploitation of Southern blacks, including the abuse of black women, Brownmiller recalls, "I heard for the first...
Following graduation and a six-month sojourn in Europe, Reed settled down in Greenwich Village where he got a job on Max Eastman's New Masses. Here Reed came into contact with artists and intellectuals--Van Wyck Brooks, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Max Weber, and Eugene O'Neill among them--who pushed the tenor of political consciousness in the Village toward the Left...
...S.L.A. fugitives were using a West 92nd Street apartment that had been a Weatherman hideout. Pursuing Patty, FBI agents not only discovered the sanctuary but very nearly got their hands on Kathy Boudin, 32. She was a leader of a group that had been making bombs in a Greenwich Village town house, but fled after the bombs accidentally exploded...