Word: yorkerism
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Working from the top, Brooks' candidates for pioneers of the new style are Bernie Cornfeld, whose flamboyant style ridiculed the low profile of international business; Governor Jerry Brown, the Jesuit-Zen candidate who flouted the rules of politics; and George Plimpton, the upper-class New Yorker whose characterizations as a dilettante in professional sports disguised a professional writer. But what of Gloria Vanderbilt, who declassed herself to become the Duchess of Denim, and of the homosexual parodists in entertainment and fashion...
...final note on McEnroe's accomplishments at Wimbledon this year: while no one was watching, he and Peter Fleming quietly took the doubles crown on Friday, a feat that testifies to the New Yorker's all-around mastery of the sport...
Normally when they are deprived of baseball by the coming of fall, the most passionate fans withdraw into what The New Yorker's Roger Angell calls the Interior Stadium. In this inner game, the fan, his mind a brightly specific montage of players and plays accumulated over the years, recombines them in purely speculative fantasy: "Ruth bats against Sandy Koufax or Sam McDowell ... Hubbell pitches to Ted Williams." Angell has written about one of the mysteries of baseball's attraction: "Its vividness, the absolutely distinct inner vision we have of that hitter, that eager base runner, of however...
...impulse that continually rises to the surface, coupled with genuine comfort in mixing with all classes and races, without any feelings of personal superiority. Perhaps the most telling fact about Koch is that he is a longtime resident of Greenwich Village. A Villager is a special kind of New Yorker. Anyone who chooses to live in the Village opts for the extremes of city life ? squalor and elegance; beauty and danger; stoop ball and art show. He also indicates that he enjoys the potential anarchy of city life? an idea that appeals to more than dare admit...
...Koch's feelings about nonwhites, about blacks especially, are mixed and volatile. In 1979 Journalist Ken Auletta was researching a two-part profile of the mayor for The New Yorker. Koch gave Auletta permission to go through a series of oral memoirs that he had recorded for Columbia University in 1975 and 1976. Among Koch's statements on race was this: "I find the black community very antiSemitic. I don't care what the American Jewish Congress or the B'nai B'rith will issue by way of polls showing that the black community is not. I think that...