Word: yorkerisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Movement is life, man you gotta keep ahead of The Man," the New Yorker repeated. "The Man has his weapons, we've got to develop our own, and mobile tactics is our best weapon...
Gradually, almost imperceptibly, the New Yorker was hypnotizing the crowd. He had the Conch, and he was not to release it. The side discussions broke up, and now everyone was listening to the mobile tactician. Some began asking concerned questions: "What happens when the cops catch us while we're running...
...Yorker began to relate tales from the Lower East Side, where mobile tactics had been used effectively. If the cops caught up with someone on a side street, he said, everyone nearby would converge screaming on that cop," and he'd let our boy go, let me tell...
...church (which sometimes attracted as many as 25,000 worshipers in a day) and celebrity status to its pastor. One day, emerging from a "skin-movie" house, where he had gone to administer last rites to a stricken Roman Catholic, he was scolded by a fellow New Yorker: "Father, you're the fellow trying to close these theaters, and here you are coming out of a dirty show...
...McCall's. She did not stay very long because of her unladylike way of dismissing certain movies with a karate chop of criticism. "I thought I'd last six months," she says. "I lasted five." She moved on to the more congenial New Republic, then switched to The New Yorker last winter. She has brought out two books of collected criticism, Lost It at the Movies and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Though she is now considered one of the country's top movie critics, Miss Kael still feels ill at ease in the East and lacks rapport with fellow intellectuals...