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Church brings a variety of experiences to the job. A New Yorker who graduated from Manhattan College in 1952 with a B.A. in English, he took on as his first journalistic beat food and textile production. Later, in Pittsburgh, he covered the steel industry...
...York's coasts had enough pump-out stations, interstate absurdities would remain. A boatman from New Jersey, which has no such law, is subject to being boarded and charged with an offense while passing through New York waters to Connecticut, which has no pump-out stations. A New Yorker leaving his home port on western Long Island Sound for Massachusetts or Maine is in violation of the law for the first few miles if he has an overboard flushing system. Yet he cannot cruise far beyond the Sound unless he has such a system. Meantime, critics say, his holding...
...down from the half quart a day of former times) ever dull his tart, epigrammatic wit. Conductors, critics and colleagues regularly felt its sting. Stravinsky once said of Leopold Stokowski that "he must have spent an hour a day trying to find the perfect bisexual hairdo." He called New Yorker Music Critic Winthrop Sargeant "W.S. Deaf." Of a new Gian Carlo Menotti opera, he said, "It is 'farther out' than anything I've seen in a decade; in the wrong direction, of course." He also took on broader targets. The technology of today's recording engineers...
Throughout U.S. Journal, a collection of Trillin's New Yorker pieces, the author reportedly lands like a benign ordering presence-deus ex-machine gunner-amidst chaos, humbug and hoopla. Covering a great deal of ground, he is naturally sympathetic toward other traveling men. He writes about a Dow Chemical recruiter who in 1968 had to go from campus to campus, removing his shoes to step over antiwar demonstrators, and try to answer such polite undergraduate questions as, "I was wondering if a Dow employee could be prosecuted as a war criminal ten or 15 years from now?" Elsewhere, Trillin...
Wherever he goes, Trillin resists the temptation to put his pulse on the finger of the nation. There is never any doubt about where his sympathies lie but, like his late colleague, The New Yorker's A.J. Liebling, Trillin exhibits great technical control and a quiet passion for fairness and precision. He is, to use a phrase that Liebling reserved for high praise, "a careful writer." · R.Z. Sheppard