Word: yorkerism
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Died. Richard Barthelmess, 68, square-jawed movie idol of the '20s and '30s, best remembered as the country-boy hero of Tol'able David and the rescuer of distraught D. W. Griffith heroines in Broken Blossoms and Way Down East, a canny New Yorker who invested his savings well, lived out a comfortable retirement (since 1942) with a Long Island mansion and a yacht; of cancer; in Southampton...
...anyone who is not a native New Yorker knows, there is no form of provincialism more acute than too long a confinement on Manhattan Island. Most of our writers and researchers, for one reason or another, come from other parts of the U.S., are alternately exhilarated or frustrated by the tension and pressures of the big city and of their jobs, and often feel penned in at their air-conditioned, glass-walled offices set high on steel shelves. Maybe that is why they read so much about far-off places, have an incurable travel itch, and pursue exotic and audacious...
...attempt by a young Indian writer to bring a gaggle of contemporary British thinkers into popular focus, the book leads to two almost inescapable conclusions. One: British philosophers are seldom intelligible even to one another. Two: Author Mehta, who calls himself an intellectual journalist and writes for the New Yorker, did well to devote some of his interviews to historians...
...Minnesota, where Rocky & have expected support from a sir contingent of moderate Republics State Chairman Robert Forsythe plained the dragmatic descent in the Yorker's populalarity: "It was the marriage. That -meant another home . . . YOU know, this guy quite a hero o to a lot of Peo Said California Republican Asse Leader Charleses Conrad: "When you married to a woman for years dump her a head later take I other woman v who has dump & lt; band, it's certainly going to effect." In Long Island, c Rockefeller territory, Republician governor John Chafee said, " there are small children of hers...
...historian and Harvard professor, now Special Assistant to the President; Theodore White, reporter and Pulitizer Prize winning author (for The Making of the President--1960); John William King, Governor of New Hampshire, Richard Tregaskis, author of Guadacanal Diary and several novels and screenplays: and Nathaniel Bentley, novelist and New Yorker writer...