Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these tales share a kindred urbanity, as might be expected from a longtime contributor of fiction and criticism to The New Yorker. (Gill's present post there is Broadway theater critic.) Many of the characters-clubmen, wealthy matrons, genteel spinsters -could well be the literary grandchildren of Edith Wharton's characters. Gill's narrative voice evokes the kind of man who might be found in one of his own fictional clubs or parlors-a wryly observant uncle or older brother who has moved in wide enough circles to be able to recount a homosexual killing...
Graphics I and Graphics 2, a gallery at 168 Newbury St. In Boston is showing the graphic work of Jean Folon, starting Monday. Folon draws little men with round hats for New Yorker covers, and line caricatures for the Editorial page of the New York Times. In 1965 he won first prize at the Third Italian Triennale for "Humor in Art". The Coop has some of his posters in their window, if you're unsure who he is--come exam time, his humor will be a welcome thing...
Warm Scotch. TIME reporters who covered their return at Kennedy International Airport found them still in fine fettle. "Anyone can go on a cruise and say it was lovely and fun," said New Yorker Diane Holze. "But we were part of the news. We were making news and enjoying it." "Anyone," added one wag, "who claims it was a horror tale is guilty of a base cunard." Some passengers were talking of an annual reunion aboard the Q.E. 2-in New York harbor. Dr. George Lawrence vowed that his yacht club at Bayside, N.Y., would in future serve all veterans...
Beach realized afterwards that maybe his stand did not constitute the coolest move he could have made under the circumstances, but he was not particularly interested in being cool. As a matter of fact, ever since he had been cursed with a New Yorker as a freshman roommate, Beach had not really liked cool people. At this point Beach was much more interested in survival, in finding something else that would not be so wasting...
...part of his unsureness sprang from a general skepticism about an environment in which he did not know who lived next door to him, did not care, and prided himself for it as part of minding his own business. Beach probably was not cut out to be a New Yorker...