UCLA class in fictional "Big Apple whores" this fall

[Jonathan Lighter]

The nightmare continues.

JL

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Yes, the fictional "Big Apple" whores have made UCLA. An not as an internet=20=
hoax, either. Incredible. UCLA!!!!
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Barry Popik
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK
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Friday - 10:00 a.m. Fall Term 2005 (1=
4 Weeks)
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Coordinator: Ira E. Bilson Co-Coordinator: George=
Alexander
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Course Description
If Paris is "The City of Light," Rome "The Eternal City" and London "The Cit=
y of Warm Beer," then what is New York?
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"The Big Apple," of course. But how many people know that this nickname com=
es not from jazz musicians of the 20th Century, but from one particular bord=
ello that graced [or disgraced] lower Manhattan at the start of the 19th Cen=
tury?
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A young, beautiful and aristocratic Frenchwoman, Evelyn de Saint-Evremond, s=
kipped out of The City of Light just a step ahead of the guillotine in the l=
ate 1790s and came to NYC where, at the beginning of the 1800s, she opened a=
n elegant bordello in lower Manhattan.
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New Yorkers being New Yorkers even then, they truncated her name to "Eve" an=
d she, amused by the anglicization/biblicalization of her name, began callin=
g her pretty young staff "my irresistible apples" and her male clients soon=20=
dubbed their visits to her place as "having a taste of Eve's Apples."
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Because New York then appears to have been widely known, at home and abroad,=
for its large number of whorehouses - elegant, so-so and rough - several va=
riations of the word "apple" [such as "The Apple Tree," "The Real Apple," et=
c.] came to be synonymous with the City.* Today, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, t=
he City Council and the New York Tourist Agency would rather you believed "B=
ig Apple" derives from jazz musicians' term for making it big, but...
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We digress.
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New York City was, for a brief period after the Revolutionary War, the natio=
n's capitol. Even before that, however, NYC had already become the first am=
ong equals of colonial cities and, over the last 200 years, has eclipsed all=
the others.
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How did this happen? In large part, NYC owes its greatness to geologic good=
fortune, nature having given it resources with both hands full. It was ble=
ssed with a superb harbor, at the mouth of an extensive, large river [the Hu=
dson] valley, with sheltered, deep waters abutting solid bedrock.
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*We're not making this up. See The Society for New York City History's webs=
ite [salwen.com/apple.]
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The synergistic effect of that wide, deep, swift-running river coming out of=
a broad, fertile up-country and flowing around a series of granitic islands=
made NYC a world-class harbor and a "natural" for oceanic trade. It also h=
elped that the islands had good, hard bedrock at shallow depth so that it su=
pported large buildings.
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First the Dutch and then the English capitalized on NYC's advantages; the ci=
ty that was New Amsterdam became New York. Immigrants poured into NYC in th=
e late 19th Century and early 20th Century and while most of the Irish, Jewi=
sh, Italian, African-American and Puerto Rican newcomers were not exactly gr=
eeted with open arms, their sons and daughters struggled to succeed - and di=
d so, in so many different fields. And as they succeeded, so did the City i=
tself; it grew and prospered until it came to symbolize the vitality, the in=
tellect, the wealth and the vision of the United States. Not everyone loved=
New York, then or now, but everyone knew what New York stood for, everyone=20=
harbored some admiration for it and almost everyone wished he or she could b=
e a New Yorker.
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During the 20th Century, New York became the nation's principal financial an=
d commercial center, its entertainment center, its fashion center, its commu=
nications center, its sports center, its intellectual center, its medical ce=
nter, a pivotal political center and, perhaps more than anything else, the n=
ation's glossiest, most elegant display window to the world.
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It has inspired architecture [the Empire State Building; the Chrysler Buildi=
ng; the World Trade Center] and song after song after song: New York, New Y=
ork [A Helluva Town!]; New York [Start Spreadin' The News]; I'll Take Manhat=
tan [the Bronx and Staten Island, too]; Autumn in New York; Take the A Train=
; On Broadway; 42nd Street; Give My Regards to Broadway; Stompin At the Savo=
y; Broadway Melody; How About You?; Another Rainy Day In N.Y. City; Goodbye,=
My Coney Island Baby; There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York; Take=20=
Me Back To Manhattan; I Happen To Like New York; The Sidewalks of New York;=20=
Lullaby Of Broadway; Harlem Serenade; Manhattan Lullaby; Do You Miss NewYork=
?
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In this SDG, we will examine how New York came to be such a leader, a trend-=
setter in so many fields and where, in the sadness of post 9/11, it stands t=
oday.
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Course Outline
1. History of New York
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2. Immigration
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3. Education - P.S. System, CCNY, Private Schools
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4. Entertainment - The Great White Way, Jazz, Musical Theater, Va=
udeville, Broadcasting
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5. Central Park
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6. The Brooklyn Bridge
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7. Sports Teams- Yankees, Giants, Knicks, Mets, Rangers, Dodgers
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8. Great Personalities - La Guardia, Walker Lehman, Giuliani, Clinto=
n, Gershwin, Stanwyck, Boss Tweed, Vanderbilt, Al Jolson
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9. Wall Street, Commerce
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10. The Museums and Great Philanthropists=20
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11. Politics - Tammany Hall - Machine politics, wards, patronage
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12. The Erie Canal
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13. The Subway System
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14. Architecture - Skyscrapers and the Slums - RCA Complex
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15. The Fashion Industry
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16. Triangle Shirt Waist Fire - The impact on the labor movement and
occupational safety
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17. The World Trade Center Attack - 9/11/01
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18. Greenwich Village
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19. Publishing - Intellectual life
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Bibliography:
There are a thousand good books on New York and very few cover all of the ar=
eas we will study. One of the few that is fairly comprehensive is Lloyd Mor=
ris, Incredible New York (High Life and Low Life From 1850 to 1950) Syracuse=
University Press - Available on Amazon. Also Eric Homberger, The Historica=
l Atlas of New York City, Henry Holt and Company
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