Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There have been only a few private art collections in this century that have managed to define a period, a style, a mood. One of them was put together by a wealthy New Yorker named Louis Vernon Ledoux; at its peak, before he died in 1948, it contained no more than 250 Japanese wood-block prints...
This Breslin seldom comes out. The fast-talk New Yorker conceals it assiduously. But it is there, and it explains the curious compassion that runs through Breslin's work. He's a tough guy, he writes strong, crude, simple prose. He likes it that way. But underneath....well.... Jimmy Breslin is a helluva firetruck ride. And it's worth hanging on to see what's under the hood...
Merritt said that the protest here had followed a similar pattern. One man, Thomas Perry of New York City, is still hospitalized from stab wounds received in the fighting, and another New Yorker, Paul Goldstein, was released from the hospital Wednesday. The other five people stabbed were treated and released Monday night...
Adjoining the newsroom set familiar to 14 million nightly viewers, Cronkite's small office is a glass-walled goldfish bowl in a sea of activity. Behind his desk rest several joking tributes, including two framed New Yorker cartoons (caption on one showing a man avidly facing his TV set: "OK, Cronkite, lay it on me"). Tanned, younger looking than he seems on the tube, Cronkite lounges in his chair and talks about forthcoming TV technology...
...mystery is why both books should be so disappointing. As a television watcher for The New Yorker during the worst of the Viet Nam War, Arlen wrote a mordantly brilliant series of essays that have been collected in The Living Room War. His second book was Exiles, a precise and lovely memoir of his parents. But An American Verdict seems oddly negligent...