Word: yorkerism
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...115th meeting of horse racing's venerable summer camp at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., opened earlier this month as regular fans returned to their favorite spa. Once again hotels and restaurants are jammed with people who seem to have leaped straight out of New Yorker cartoons, and the jewel thieves who shadow the wealthy have put in their usual appearance. It would seem that nothing could disturb these genteel August rites...
...life often think they will be safe with partners who already have the disease. But the sufferer can be reinfected in different parts of the body, or may receive a different strain of the disease. "I probably wouldn't see another person with herpes," says a thirtyish New Yorker. "I know that sounds awful, but I can't risk re-exposure and a possible parallel case...
...same roles season after season." Going to the Dance shows that formidable critical repertory. Croce has natural authority and a succinct, pungent style. She stands for musicality and clarity in choreography, artistry and daring onstage. The pleasure in reading these pieces, which were first printed in The New Yorker, is in the variety of performers she finds who embody her standards. They may be hoofers or acrobats or even movie actors. About the very best- George Balanchine, Suzanne Farrell, Mikhail Baryshnikov- she can write truly rhapsodic prose, an act of daring in itself. About the pretentious, the emptily theatrical...
Some family. Shirley is a theatrical producer and literary agent. Burton is a celebrated biographer and New Yorker staff writer. And their older brother? Who else? Lenny, the conductor, lecturer, composer and 63-year-old Wunderkind. Family Matters follows all the Bernsteins from obscurity to celebrity, traveling the pull of Lenny's powerful slipstream. As Burton tells it, the early conditions were not propitious for fame. Sam, the father, was a successful businessman, a manic-depressive and a parochial ethnocentric (in later years he would refer to Dwight Eisenhower as General Eisenberg and to Adlai Stevenson as Steve Adelson...
Angell, 26 years a fiction writer for The New Yorker and currently a senior fiction editor for the magazine as well as occasional baseball writer, explains that his primary interest lies in good writing, not following players around from park to park and each familiar hotel. "I don't want to give the impression that I had to write about baseball that the only way I could be involved with baseball was writing about it," he said in a recent telephone interview. The man whose mother was an editor of The New Yorker and whose stepfather was E. B. White...