Word: streetcars
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...DANCE THEATRE of Harlem is known for its broad and electric repertoire, ranging from innovative modern pieces to dance-dramas like "A Streetcar Named Desire" to daring reinterpretations of classical ballets. Just 15 years old, it is considered a peer of leading American companies like The New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater...
Radcliffe was still in part a commuter college when I was there; perhaps half my class came by streetcar or subway from Boston, the Newtons, Dorchester, or Cambridge. The rest lived in dormitories presided over by house mistresses and were waited on at table by maids in white aprons and caps...
Going into Boston was a big adventure. But when ennui overcame us and the double features at the "Unie" palled (even though a heavy date might pay the extra fee and take you to sit in the overstuffed seats in the balcony), we would get on the "Mass Ave" streetcar and go into town to the Fine Arts Theater around the corner from the old Loew's State-Theater. There we would sit entranced by Rene Clair's Sous Les Toits de Paris and Le Million or Congress Dances, a charming old chestnut about the Congress of Vienna, replete with...
DIED. Benjamin E. Mays, 89, civil rights advocate and president (1940-67) of Morehouse College, a leading black educational institution; in Atlanta. The son of sharecroppers, Mays once told his students, "They can make you sit in the back of the streetcar, but no one can confine a mind." One Morehouse graduate who took that advice to heart was the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who called Mays "my spiritual mentor and my intellectual father...
Buffalo also hopes to lure new riders with its 6.4-mile Light Rail Rapid Transit (LRRT) system, an unconventional marriage of streetcar and subway technologies that is costing $500 million from state and federal treasuries. The initial 1.2-mile street-level segment, scheduled to open some time this year, will cut through a ten-block-long mall in the city's central commercial district that will be closed to most other traffic. Trips within the transit mall will be free, giving shoppers an incentive to patronize downtown businesses...