Word: yorkerism
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...wrote. "Cassius, the savior of boxing, against an opponent whom . he calls 'that ugly little man.' Where is the good old American sentiment for the underdog?" By fight time there was plenty of sentiment. Half of Harlem trooped to the Garden to root for New Yorker Jones. For other fans rooting against Clay was practically a moral obligation. Prideful Cassius was due for his fall, and they were there to trip him if they could. The lights dimmed. A spotlight caught Jones, a black fireplug of a man, in a yellow and purple robe. The crowd cheered. Then...
...reads smoothly. Over the years O'Hara's ear for dialogue has become something of a legend, as critics never tire of reminding us. Yet he did not come by this talent easily: he worked at it as a young journalist. Fox example, in 1929 he got a New Yorker assignment to report the meetings of the Orange County Afternoon Delphian Society. As Walcott Gibbs reflected in 1938, after a while the stories became almost impossible to read, "the sensation was uncomfortably like being trapped among the ladies while they talked...
...York, Writer Birnbaum has been reading up on the city, and refreshing his own recollections of it. A New Yorker himself, he once worked in our Chicago bureau for a year and a half, hated the city at first, but came to share its exuberance, admire its "spirit of cultural innovation," and find refreshing its "happy cynicism about crime." He was helped in his reading and researching by Joanne Funger. who made her first "casual visit" to Chicago in 1950 and has averaged about eight visits a year there since...
...Finance Committee but the Appropriations Committee. In three days of debate, Clark charged that Senate committee assignments are decided by a decidedly nonliberal "establishment" of senior Southern and Western Senators. (The idea of an American "establishment"-much broader than the Congress-was first satirically suggested by The New Yorker's Washington correspondent, Richard Rovere. He compared it to Britain's royal family and plutocracy, which are sometimes called "the Establishment...
...first head of the newly created Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, Governor Orval Faubus had one admonition: "Think of Arkansas first in all that you do." That was in 1955, and since then Millionaire Winthrop Rockefeller, a transplanted New Yorker, has certainly paid heed to Orval's words. In fact, he has perhaps done too well at helping Arkansas redeem itself from poverty. For Democrat Faubus is now trying to oust Republican Rockefeller from the A.I.D.C. chairmanship...