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Koch on telling New Yorker magazine in 1979, "I find the Black community very anti-Semitic." "I was summing up the Kerner Report in effect...It said we were heading towards greater racial division with Black anti white feeling and anti-Black feeling by whites I also pointed out, and intended to convey, that a number or Black leaders that I knew expressed themselves in an anti-semitic way. Now it seems to me that what Jesse Jackson recently did kind of makes the point doesn...
...store scene is wonderful, a perfect paradigm of the kind of tangled wrangle no true New Yorker can resist joining. By the time the sequence is over, the FBI and the KGB are disputing sovereignty over Vladimir Ivanoffs befuddled soul, helped along by the N.Y.P.D., the store's security force, a nice lady from the perfume counter, a gallant homosexual from men's wear and assorted shoppers. Thereafter, though, the film loses its verve...
...most part, though, Hart managed to avoid the backbiting that crippled him in New York. At a debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters in Pittsburgh, both candidates were on their best behavior. They had been warned against outbursts by Moderator Elizabeth Drew, the prim New Yorker writer who wanted none of the unseemly clashes cheerfully tolerated by CBS Anchorman Dan Rather, who had presided over a slugfest a week earlier in New York. At that debate, the candidates sat around a small table and took turns tattooing each other. In Pittsburgh, they sat behind lecterns and politely exchanged...
...fallen for him like this? In part it was simply overwhelming sexual attraction: the eyes, the skin, the beard, the hands.... And there were Russell's accomplishments: his story in The New Yorker, his national political lobby. And he did play the violin, not to mention soccer. Lauren was not above being bowled over by some qualifications which had convinced the Harvard admissions committee...
...work until a high school football injury gave him a long stretch of hospital time for reading. After an uncomfortable journalistic debut as a subeditor on that now defunct "independent" Communist journal The New Masses, Rovere was hired as a writer by William Shawn, then The New Yorker's managing editor. A few years later Shawn and Harold Ross, the magazine's founding editor, assigned him to write about politics as if he were a critic-reviewing a book or play. Thereafter, diffident and a bit owlish, the critic plied the provinces with nearly every would-be President...