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...last June's primaries, both Procaccino and Marchi carried Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island but lost Manhattan. Marchi entitled his campaign kickoff speech 'The Forgotten New Yorker." One of the catchy phrases Procaccino uses repeatedly is "the Manhattan arrangement." By that he means an alliance of the intellectuals, editors, broadcasting executives, businessmen and progressives of both major parties who oppose him. Lindsay, he says, is attempting to "pit the poor against the middle class, while he goes about the business of rebuilding Manhattan for the select few." Procaccino is waging the politics of class by the numbers, knowing...
Other newspapers-including the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York Post-ran the text and the New Yorker sold more than 55,000 reprints of its "Talk of the Town" section, in which they had printed a lengthy excerpt...
Likewise, New Yorker Music Critic Winthrop Sargeant attacked the suffix -wise, as in taxwise. He called it "a Madison Avenue locution which should be avoided by every civilized person." Author Basil Davenport grudgingly approved advise in the sense of notify. Even so, he ruled, it is permissible only "in business English and Army English, if there is any excuse for the existence of these bastard twins...
TIME OUT OF HAND: REVOLUTION AND REACTION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, by Robert Shaplen. Using flashbacks into history and probes into the future, The New Yorker's veteran correspondent in Asia views present dangers there with well-measured judgment...
Jane Kramer, a young New Yorker writer, has apparently followed him everywhere, recording his words whenever possible. But, as if purposely profiling her subject rather than attempting to present a full portrait study, Miss Kramer carefully avoids making any critical judgments on the quality of his work. Perhaps she is right in doing so, for personality rather than poetry is certainly Ginsberg...