Word: yorkerism
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...Yorker, I am perfectly happy to have the opportunity to vote for Robert Kennedy as a U.S. Senator from New York. Some people forget that the Senate was meant, through longer tenure and fewer members, to serve as a less provincial legislative body than the House of Representatives. New Yorkers have 41 Representatives and another Senator to serve the state's selfish sectional interests. A Senator experienced and interested in the welfare of the whole nation should be welcome in an already too-provincial chamber...
...markedly evident in Suite for Five, no attempt was made to correlate Cage's scores with Cunningham's choreography; the dances were neither created nor rehearsed to the music. A couple of ballets ended as inconclusively as a New Yorker short story. What did it all mean-if anything? "Barefoot inconsequentiality," as the Guardian snorted? Or "a much-needed shot in the backside," as the Sunday Times averred? Most balletomanes tended to the Observer's verdict that the three "are so full of invention that they will be a mine for imitators for years...
...former stable in the old whaling town of Sag Harbor, and putts around in his Model T and 1935 Rolls-Royce. Realists such as Fairfield Porter, Paul Georges and Moses Soyer live within a short drive of Abstractionists Ludwig Sander, Corrado Marca-Relli and James Brooks. Even New Yorker Cartoonists Charles Addams and Saul Steinberg find the region warmly inclusive...
...white downtown New Yorker who has grown weary and annoyed with a deluge of overblown, excited and conflicting newspaper reports on "those uptown riots," I was startled and shaken to read your Harlem story [July 31]. Your clear and unsentimental reporting on the recent events had me applauding your integrity. It was the most poignant and powerful piece of writing I've read anywhere on the subject...
...chairman of the Republican National Committee since 1961, U.S. Representative William Edward Miller, 50, has proved himself a tireless, effective party organizer. A Roman Catholic and a New Yorker, he gives a semblance of religious and geographic balance to the ticket. A compact 5-ft. 7-in., 140-pounder, he makes a good appearance -particularly when accompanied by his highly photogenic wife Stephanie and their daughters Elizabeth Ann, 20, and Mary Karen, 17. A conservative after Barry's own heart, Miller is an acid-tongued orator with a notable talent for getting under Democratic skins. In fact, Goldwater told...