Word: yorkerism
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...Yorker can be committed only if he is presently insane, and more dangerously ill than the minimum required by the rather loose Freeman standards. Thus, if an allegedly insane tax defendant is sane enough to stand trial, he seems unlikely to face state commitment upon his federal acquittal...
...they're almost a new kind of priesthood." Last week's results fed an increasing skepticism about the value and methods of the polls. "We don't give a damn about them," says John T. Morgan, staff director of the House Democratic Study Group. And New Yorker William Pfeiffer, campaign manager for Governor Nelson Rockefeller this year, simply discarded all the polls that almost universally made Rocky an underdog. "They never bothered me. I knew they had to be wrong...
...Reilly Hayes, 43, holder of a Harvard master's degree in public administration, who served as chief examiner for housing programs in the Federal Budget Bureau and deputy director of the community action program in the Office of Economic Opportunity. » Thomas Hoving, 35, a New Yorker with a Princeton Ph.D. (in art history), who was a museum curator before becoming grand vizier of "fun city." Hoving has brought life and imagination to the park system as parks commissioner, recently took on the post of city director of cultural and recreational affairs to try to do the same...
...CLASSIC CARTOONS edited by William Cole and Mike Thaler. 336 pages. World. $8.95. A collection that synthesizes the wit of the U.S., Britain and the Continent, though with a heavy reliance on The New Yorker and Punch. Just about all the old favorites are here, from Arno to Price to Rose, Dempsey, Cruikshank and Searle...
Romney clearly thought that Rocky should try. When the Michigander arrived from San Juan, he was asked what he thought about the New Yorker's notion of a party consensus. His face clouded. "That is Rockefeller's word," snapped Romney. "I associate it with someone else who hasn't fared too well with consensus. I think we need leadership." With that, Romney went off to Suite 701 in the Dorado Beach Hotel, changing into plaid trunks for a swim. When he finally did phone Rockefeller, 90 minutes after arriving, he suggested that they wait until the morrow...