Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scriptwriter in Hollywood in the early thirties, and was responsible for some of the Marx Brothers' best films. In 1956 he won the N. Y. Film Critics' Award for the script of Around the World in 80 Days. Meanwhile he had found his niche in the New Yorker, writing the short, uncategorizable comic pieces which gave him his reputation, and thirty-two of which constitute Baby, it's Cold Inside. These pieces rely not so much on characters or situations but on the comic possibilities of words themselves. Perelman is a master of a bewildering array of trite and overused...
COLUMBIA-RUTGERS: New York football observers were shocked this morning when Mayor Lindsay, an Ivy Leaguer and a New Yorker, endorsed the Rutgers football team. Lindsay said he could keep silent no longer. So now a prediction is tougher than ever. But on the other hand, this one's as easy to guess as the rest. The Lion...
Agnew had been hinting for some time that there is a Republican among the Senate Radical-Liberals, the villains of his political set piece. He finally named Goodell an R.L. during an interview in North Dakota, declaring that the New Yorker had "left his party" by opposing President Nixon on Viet Nam, economic policy and law-and-order issues. Agnew planned to come to New York this week to address a group of conservative political contributors who are hardly likely to number Goodell among their beneficiaries. Agnew's appearance will seem to many politicians to be a frank pitch...
This volume, although it is a collection of his dispatches for The New Yorker from 1965 to 1970, reads more like a continuous story than a set of unconnected columns. From before the great escalation in 1965, Shaplen traces the tragic and tortuous path this war has taken to the present. Early on, he realized how little the military aspects of the war really mean. His columns on the persecution of Buddhists by the Catholic Directory, the ruling junta of generals, informed America of the scandalous political repression within South Vietnam. He also seems to have realized from the beginning...
Aprenda Ingles. Leading the fight against WPIX is Forum Communications Inc., a consortium of New Yorkers that includes Harry Belafonte and is headed by former NBC Vice President Lawrence K. Grossman. Defending themselves against Forum, WPIX executives have maintained that they were unaware of the news doctoring. As for the shortage of news coverage, they claim that "the public is surfeited with broadcast news." But since the Forum challenge, WPIX has doubled its news staff and air time and rushed to schedule community shows like Black Pride, Puerto Rican New Yorker, Jewish Dimension and Aprenda Ingles (Learn English). Many stations...