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...indicate how out of it one is. My father's generation seemed to be surprised by everything--a TV set, automatic shift, snow--and to be enchanted by the smallest event. "A martini!" my father would say, as if he had not mixed it himself. "Pie a la mode!"--with a lusty accent on "mode," as if he were recalling a village in France and not a scoop of ice cream...
...York City restaurant. In dresses, hats, jackets and ties, we would trudge through the heavy, reluctant revolving door and enter the place of civilization and ceremony. "This way, doctor." This way to the weighted silver plate and the thick linen tablecloths and napkins, and the pie a la mode...
After that we grew quite close, drawn together by a common mode of conversation, the same general appreciation of comic nonsense (though sometimes he would issue a cold, dry laugh at something that seemed absolutely sensible to me), and by some unspoken sense of sadness. We circumvented the subject of politics whenever possible. He was appalled by my liberalism; I was enraged by his approval of Nixon and the Vietnam...
...know the ethnic background of the attackers. I do know the mood of the day - an atmosphere of boozing, marauding holiday, of norms suspended: a temporary overthrow of the authorities. The police - Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's famous tough guys - were in a lounging and permissive mode, as if, in the face of the crowds and heat and politicized cultural assertion, they had decided not to get involved. When people reported the attacks to police in the park, the cops seemed indifferent and evasive. And the bystanders were no help either...
Rollerblades are over. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for at least the rest of the year, their novelty is likely to be supplanted by an alternate mode of self-propulsion. Scooters, those nostalgic vehicles of 1950s suburban youth, have been updated and repackaged as urban transport and are being embraced by metropolitan commuters, thrill-seeking teens and those who occasionally find walking too great an inconvenience...