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...York's Nelson Rockefeller-remembering his own experience in 1964-could not endorse the pause behind PAUSE. After acknowledging but politely disclaiming his old supporter's hopeful postscript, which indicated that the New Yorker was still his personal choice, Rockefeller bluntly replied that unless the moderates plan to "simply deliver the nomination to the other side on a silver platter," they had better fall in quickly behind Michigan's George Romney. "He is," noted Rockefeller, "consistently running around ten points ahead of Lyndon Johnson in the polls throughout the country. He is the first and only Republican...
...also Hoover who learned that the Senate can pressure a President into nominating its man instead of his own. After Holmes resigned in 1932, leaving the court with two New Yorkers and a Jew, Hoover's last choice was Judge Benjamin Cardozo-a New Yorker, a Jew and a Democrat to boot. Cardozo, however, had wide appeal as a reformer, and as the Depression deepened in an election year, Senate leaders indicated to the President that it was possible that no one else would be confirmed. Hoover was forced to name Cardozo-and hear his move lauded...
After Understanding Media, with its overpowering documentation and illustrations, The Medium is the Massage appears to be some sort of joke. Everything from the trick of its title to the contrived pictorial gags and New Yorker cartoons suggests that McLuhan is pulling someone's leg. And that is probably his intention...
Betwixt and between, he dashed off four comic essays for The New Yorker, appeared on numerous TV shows at $10,000 a shot, played Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas for $25,000 a week, turned out two bestselling comedy albums, and lent his owlish visage to several advertisements ranging from Smirnoff's vodka to Foster Grant sunglasses. Now he is completing a new nightclub act as well as a play about "a happily neurotic love affair." This summer he plans to begin work on Take the Money and Run, a new film he co-authored and will...
...first time in our history," observes New Yorker Critic Harold Rosenberg in the current issue of Encounter, "the university has become the training ground for artists as well as art teachers. This is a new situation, and the more quickly its potentialities are recognized, the better." To a considerable extent, universities are beginning to deal with this situation: campuses from Yale to California have acquired staffs of practicing artists as well as art historians. Nowhere is the picture brighter than at Manhattan's Hunter College, a city-run school that has, with a minimum of fuss, assembled...