Word: yorkerism
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...time was the mid-'60s. The restrained ways of the previous decade were retreating before creeping sideburns and widening ties. Despite a touch of residual acne, Stuart Miller saw himself as Stuart the Magnificent. A New Yorker, he had buried his middle-class Jewish background beneath dashing consumer goods. His degrees included a Ph.D. from Yale. He had acquired a vaguely British accent and was, fittingly, the author of The Picaresque Novel, a study of rogues in literature...
...weeks later to pick up a sort of patchwork personality portrait, sewn together by Linda for $200 or so. Customers do not seem to worry that her interpretations of their personalities will be too freaky. "Basically," she says, "people will wear anything they can get away with." New Yorker Jann Johnson, 24, carries the idea a logical step further: she has been embroidering her jeans with the story of her life. Her home, for example, is symbolized by a leather skyline of Manhattan; her California past is portrayed on a knee. "Actually," she hastily says, "they're not quite...
...Galley, there lies a haunting problem: well-intentioned men faithfully executing their duty as they see it can find themselves responsible for horrible events. By coincidence, in the week that the Pentagon papers emerged, Yale Law Professor Charles Reich (The Greening of America) addressed the problem in The New Yorker. Reich wrote: "Evil now comes about not necessarily when people violate what they understand to be their duty but, more and more often, when they are conscientiously doing what is expected of them...
...Times staff members were eventually involved. Gold saw his family only five times during the period. Sheehan, who has a bad back, took daily walks in the beginning; but as deadline time neared, had even given up sleeping. The last push was provided by his wife Susan, a New Yorker writer. On the Monday after publication, with Sheehan's third piece still in the typewriter, she brought a double bounty: a visit from one of their two daughters, who had not seen her father for weeks, and some Dexedrine. At the Times plant, a small, trusted composing crew...
Vampire. Last October, Munves, 44, moved over to RCA as director of classical music and began applying his pop-oriented sales and packaging concepts to the company's Red Seal line. An engagingly brash, native New Yorker who got his start 22 years ago as a clerk in a Manhattan discount-record store, Munves approached Artur Rubinstein with the idea of a Rubinstein's greatest-hits LP. "You are a vampire," said the pianist, and refused. But Rubinstein did go along with a reassemblage of old items called The Chopin I Love. This month, Munves brought out eleven...