Word: yorkerism
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...history professors, an avowed Yankees fan, discreetly encouraged me to retain the faith as a native New Yorker, regardless of my dislocation. Nonetheless, he reluctantly acknowledged that a game in Fenway Park is a required Boston experience. The summer after my sophomore year was filled with trips to the park at the height of recent Sox glory. Pedro wasn’t just a knockout pitcher, but Dominican Royalty to the bleacher creatures. And Nomar and Manny just fed more fire to the fervor...
...addition to serving as a reporter and editor for The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Texas Monthly and The Atlantic Monthly, he has written a number of critically acclaimed books, including The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How it Changed America, and most recently, The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy. Klatell, who served with Lemann on the task force, said they were thinking about the future of journalism...
...internationally acclaimed ensemble that combines vocal and instrumental virtuosity with innovative research and programming to reconstruct the living musical traditions of medieval Europe. Livljanic, a singer and musicologist, trained at the Zagreb Music Conservatory and directs Dialogos, a vocal ensemble specializing in medieval chant and liturgical theatre. The New Yorker proclaimed their concerts combine both “scholarly insight and dramatic verve.” Monday, April 21 at 7 p.m. Free. Harvard Divinity School, Andover Hall (second floor), 45 Francis...
Adams could not be reached for comment, but he told The New Yorker two years ago that he defines culture as “the symbols that we share to understand each other...
...Bill Clinton in 1997--scared off arena crowds; her blending of country, folk, rock and blues made her Kryptonite to rigidly formatted radio; her weakness for bass players and love of Southern Gothic led some to dismiss her as eccentric. An 11,000-word profile in the New Yorker that concluded Williams wrote best when she was thoroughly miserable didn't help matters...