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They are: Adrienne Rich (Mrs. Alfred Conrad), author of three volumes of poetry; Brendan Gill, movie critic for the New Yorker; and Theodore H. White, the author of "The Making of the President," which received a Pulitzer Prize...
...name is sometimes pronounced "Whatmuff." (Whatmough can be most engaging on the subject of his unusual name. It comes from two old words meaning "brother-in-law of Walter" and a few years back was used as an example of silly British names by a writer in the New Yorker who made a sentence out of it: "What mo' could you ask?") He studied classics and comparative philology at Manchester and Cambridge Universities and started his academic career as a classicist. (He still maintains that classics and mathematics provide the best education one can get.) In fact, what is most...
...Life in California" has long been reserved as a stock headline in The New Yorker for items indicating that something more rich and strange than ordinary human life goes on out there. West Coast Novelist Mary Carter also argues that California, specifically Pasadena, is a special enclave within the Affluent Society -more trouble-free, less wrinkle-prone, where nothing intrudes to clutter up the sunny living space but the quick-disposal doubt...
There was no reaction among Harvard students to the change. "Columbia?? Isn't that somewhere uptown?" one New Yorker asked...