Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Editor James Greenfield, Correspondents Eric Pace and Charles Mohr, Reporters Israel Shenker and John Noble Wilford, to name only a few, are former TIME correspondents or writers. So are Editor T George Harris of Psychology Today, syndicated Newsday Columnist Nick Thimmesch, Michael Demarest, an editorial executive at Playboy, New Yorker Writers Calvin Trillin and John McPhee, Alvin M. Josephy of American Heritage. The pseudonymous financial analyst "Adam Smith," author of the bestselling The Money Game, wrote for our Business section under his real name, George J.W. Goodman, before becoming editor of The Institutional Investor. Syndicated Hollywood Columnist Joyce Haber...
...Galley, there lies a haunting problem: well-intentioned men faithfully executing their duty as they see it can find themselves responsible for horrible events. By coincidence, in the week that the Pentagon papers emerged, Yale Law Professor Charles Reich (The Greening of America) addressed the problem in The New Yorker. Reich wrote: "Evil now comes about not necessarily when people violate what they understand to be their duty but, more and more often, when they are conscientiously doing what is expected of them...
...Federal Government's contributions to the program, and some, like Washington, D.C., simply ran out of money last year, leaving the poor as vulnerable as they were without the plan. Thus Medicaid, like welfare, is subject to local quirks and disparities. Ira Jay Thau, 23, a New Yorker whose existence depends upon regular kidney dialysis, cannot take a job without losing the Medicaid benefits that pay for his treatment. Says he: "If I try to be a useful member of society by getting a job, then I lose the only thing that keeps me alive...
...quintessential Nash appears in "One Man's Opiate," published late last year in The New Yorker. In it, he brings off an excruciating knock-knock joke in French-en route to his conclusion about the uses of laughter in the gloomy present: "In this age penumbral,/Let the timbrel resound in the tumbrel...
Neither Got Tired. Once established as a light versifier, he joined the staff of The New Yorker, worked in Hollywood and collaborated with S.J. Perelman on the 1943 Broadway hit One Touch of Venus. The verse came out by the volume. He once remarked: "I often wonder whether I will get tired of writing them before the public gets tired of reading them, or whether it will happen the other way." He never tired of writing, and his public never tired of reading...