Word: yorkerism
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...Antonio started making Point of Order in 1960. The film was the brainchild of Daniel Talbot, owner of the New Yorker Theatre, but it was de Antonio who edited it and organized it into its present form. At first the two men, neither of whom had ever made a film before, hired an experienced German editor to do the cutting. "He was a real Stalinist type," de Antonio recalls. "He wanted to open the movie with the American flag waving in front of a Vermont church and end it with McCarthy's funeral. In between scenes he wanted film clips...
Niederhoffer played brilliantly to reach the semifinals. The Crimson captain obliterated former Amherst star Tom Owens, 15-3, 15-5, 15-5, beat New Yorker Bill Tully 15-5, 15-12, 15-12, and whacked Claude Beer 15-3, 15-2, 15-11 after Beer eliminated Canadian champ Smith Chapman...
...Salaun win their first three matches they'll meet in the semifinals. But the road to the semis is not free of obstacles for either man. The Crimson captain meets former Amherst star Bill Smith in the first round, then probably faces Bill Tully, a highly regarded New Yorker, in the second...
...necessarily be the most important. For there is evidence that the dominating figure in that life was his mother. This week, at her own request, Marguerite Claverie Pic Oswald Ekdahl, 56, a practical nurse, is scheduled to appear before the commission along with her lawyer, Mark Lane, a New Yorker with an unquenchable passion for the defense of underdogs and liberal causes...
...integration of Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes into the University of Georgia in January, 1961. Students stone Charlayne's dormitory her first night on campus, they deface her car, and insults and abuse greet both Negroes throughout the university. But Trillin, a Yale graduate who writes for the New Yorker, does not dwell on these incidents. Instead he chooses to report the disillusionment and sense of loss that two Negroes experience when they leave the comfort of high-school success in an all-Negro environment to enter Georgia as symbols of The Cause...