Word: yorkerism
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...Yorker saw what was coming. At Consolidated Edison's Energy Control Center on Manhattan's West Side, Engineer Edwin Nellis was monitoring a meter that records the amount of power flowing in from upstate
Nonetheless, many New Yorkers consider the mayor's duties to be increasingly anachronistic-inevitably involved in such a flood of ceremonial and political functions that the actual management of the city has been left to a timid bureaucracy. It has become a New Yorker's cliche that the mayor is powerless to halt the city's decline. In fact, recent charter revisions have given the mayor of New York extraordinary new executive powers, which the outgoing administration did not utilize to best advantage...
...Court grouped Fanny with the cases of Ralph Ginzburg, publisher of Eros magazine, and a New Yorker arrested for having sadistic literature in his basement. The review could result in a total redefinition of Federal obscenity standards...
...leaders of Students for a Democratic Society, a "new left" organization. Both have applied for draft deferment as conscientious objectors. They urge others to follow their example, though they oppose such prison-risking stunts as burning draft cards. "We are a moral movement primarily," says Rothstein, a native New Yorker with a Harvard degree in political philosophy. "It horrifies me that people here can walk around oblivious to the fact that they're responsible for a war and all that war means-destruction and murder. It's as if they'd lost all their moral sense." Booth...
Pathetic Absolution. Sherm also had standards, grandly banished any of those guilty of incurring his displeasure. At one time or another the banished list included Humphrey Bogart, who told Billingsley, "You stink," New Yorker Editor Harold Ross, who published an unflattering profile of W.W., Josephine Baker, who complained about slow service and had the added disadvantage of being a Negro, and Jackie Gleason, whom Sherm declared "a drunken...