NYU Washington Square College - Album Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Jumpin' Jive The Admiral SiTs Tor a PorTraiT Cynicism, isolaTionisrn, dissipaTion. A segmenT oT an era passed, zealously guarded by a minoriTy sTruggling To keep iTs TradiTion alive. Landlords, commercial and irnpassive, TighTing only To keep up The renT. Aspiring l-loraTio Algers, Cornells, and O'Neills scrimping To pay The bill. A Casbahian reTuge Trom realism and socieTy. lnTellecTuals, pseudo and real. Characlrers. English Tweeds and goaTees. ArTisTs Talking abouT Their masTerpieces and worrning money Tor anoTher drink. SaTurday nighT brawls, drunkards, and slumrners. DirTy, windy sTreeTs. Fireplaces and candle-lighT. Old, dilapidaTed, dumpy houses. Some oT Them Taken over by boisTerous TraTers, sporTing Greek leTTer plagues nexT To dusTy Turnished room signs l-lisToric gas-liT Mac Dougal Alley, Gay STreeT, Min- eTTa Lane and The WashingTon Square Mews. All sorTs oT quainTly named sTreeTs-New York's LaTin QuarTer. A sighT Tor ouT-oT-Towners' insaTiable appe- TiTes. They look, They marvel. BuT The Village is Tor The Villager. l-lelen l-lokinson ladies, mink coaTs, and Long- champs. Lower FiTTh Avenue and WesT TwelTTh and ThirTeenTh sTreeTs. The WhiTe Turkey, Sea Fare lwail' in line, pleasel, and The WhiTney Museum. And a crowd waiTing Tor The RevoluTion wiTh Karl Marx under Their arms. A Nibble and a sap

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choly browns repelled aimlessly wandering eyes. On comma-shaped richly carved armresls, perspir- ing baffles wilh unyielding examinalions were loughl, and communicalions +o Jrhe belle in lhe second row were carefully composed .... You lislened, wrole, suffered, slepl, and learned, Almosl from lhe very s+ar+, unfinished assign- menls and impending 'resls led you lo Those quiel sforehouses of learning-lhe libraries. The Jrenlh floor law branch slood aloof wi+h frigid digniry nexl lo lhe Chancellons office, ils Jrwo slories of legal Overdue? ggi The Search is On l 2 7 A Point Piclr n Card 'romes overwhelmingly impressive. The periodicals room enveloped all comers wilh soolhing gloom. And on lhe lirsl floor, The reading room wilh ils besieged counlers and slurdy +ables and raflling eleva+ors which lead down +o 'rhe l-lades of The slacks-lhe reading room slill gloried in ifs newly- acquired imporlance of Main Library. Surrounded by boolcs and whisper-filled silence you could sel- lle down and +hinl4-could build anolher world despire drall boards and war. Anolher world lhal furned around 'rhe lhings you read, and more ollen, around lhe lhings you lazily +hough+ of as your boolc- weary eyes slared info space wilh mosl unacademic dreaminess.

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The Villager, anligues, grocery shops wilh a Cape Codian general slore llavor. Open Sundaysl' for lale brunchers and loungers. Ari shows, dives, relaxalion and recrealion. l-lang- ouls ranging from Cale Sociely and El Chico, lo lhe Nui Club and The Dump, according lo lhe mood and ihe pockelboolc. Le Jazz l-lol and Niclc's. The wailing ol a lrumpel al 3 Aivl. Spaghelii and meaiballs ar Eddie's Aurora, beer and dancing ai VVins+on's accompanied by lhe piano-punclualed singing ol ils proprieior-hosl. The Russian Slcazlsa, Mexican Gardens, Young China providing nalive foods and lending a coniinenial almosphere. Jewelry shops wilh gaudy ear-rings, chain brace- lels, friendship rings. Funny-laces made ol hand- carved copper al Rebaies. Exclusive gills al luxuri- ous prices nexl lo rummage basemenls and pawn- shops. Fascinaling windows on Eighlh Slreel lealur- ing peasanl blouses, delicalely-painled plallers, French paslry, and rare iruils, And lhe seasonal side-wallc exhibilions wilh lhe arlisis close by lo drinlc in your commenis. Somebodies, noloodies. A colorful legend behind il, rhe Village goes on, abelred by human romanric- M ism and commercial propaganda. Know lhe Village? Sure. Weni +o school down lhere for lour years.