Word: varick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dover's gleaming, laminated covers and sprightly interiors belie their origins. Eighteen years ago, after shuttling around Manhattan, the Cirkers settled on Varick Street, a glum manufacturing area south of Greenwich Village. The industrial pallor of Dover's office walls suggests a place where parking tickets are paid, and the low clatter of sorting machines is more reminiscent of post office than publisher. But within those corridors the search for new volumes is as lively and noisy as a fox hunt. Some 200 employees are engaged in the tracing of new sources, designing covers and books, filling mail...
WHEN John Varick Tunney was first approached to run for Congress, he reacted with a frankness that he has since learned does not often make for political advantage. "People really think I ought to run for Congress," he wrote his wife. "Can you imagine that...
...registered Republican, and the district-the 38th, which included Riverside, his home-was markedly conservative. It also took some special insight by a pretty fair political professional, President John F. Kennedy. His advice, relayed through Edward Kennedy, Tunney's law-school roommate and close friend: drop the name Varick, by which Tunney had been called since childhood. The skeptical Tunney ran a poll: 66% of his potential constituents associated the name Varick with Russia and/or Communism. (In fact, it was the surname of a Revolutionary War ancestor.) At that, even his wife began calling him John. Finally, it took...
...voice is impassioned, resonant, "hooting" occasionally in the honored tradition of black preaching. Now and again the shouts of the preacher roll from behind the doors of Varick Memorial Church and out onto the quiet streets of Brooklyn's black Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Pastor Calvin B. Marshall, stentorian proponent of black Christian radicalism, is reminding his parishioners that Christianity has a proper place in the black revolution...