Word: yorker
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...Harvard. I never even went to high school,” said McCourt, beginning a speech that kept the audience laughing. Drawing on material from his memoir, he reflected on his Irish education and childhood as compared with those of his New Yorker students. “We had the victim-type education,” McCourt said of the Irish, which “conditioned” them to believe they were a “fighting race” of Catholics who “hated the English, but [were] always betrayed by some son of a bitch...
...Despite the top-notch quality of its students, Deep Springs’ community has critics. Over the past two years, Deep Springs has received an influx of media coverage with prominent articles in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. Both articles tout the cowboy-intellectual aspect of the college, and students say in doing so the articles missed the meaningfulness of Deep Springs...
...Sept. 4 New Yorker article raised the question of class at the college, suggesting that the school consists of primarily white, upper-middle-class boys. According to Rosenblum, the school pulls primarily from the East and West Coasts as well as from urban centers...
Vesper appears to be the first of Bond’s love interests to have graduated from Pampers to Playtex. As Anthony Lane aptly put it in the New Yorker, “One thing she definitely is not is a Bond girl. Vesper is a Bond woman.” It is strange that the first Bond femme we can feel true sympathy for is one who is, herself, expressly unsympathetic...
Gopnik, a regular writer for The New Yorker, explains how he and his wife decided to raise their children in New York, a city that, in his eyes, has become “a children’s city.” Gopnik’s descriptions of children’s gyms on each block in some neighborhoods and strollers that crowd the sidewalk present a vision of New York from the point of view of both child and parent...