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...when Charles F. Luce became chairman of New York's huge Consolidated Edison Co., his first priority seemed clear. Since the average New Yorker then used only half as much electricity as the average American, Luce yearned to boost consumption-and did. But last week he told a startled Manhattan audience: "The wisdom of three years ago is the idiocy of today." Instead of trying to increase consumption, he now wants to decrease...
...growing awareness that the woman posing as his aunt is really his mother, and that he himself knows nothing about his father. Born in 1914, West is a semi-public figure in the U.S. For almost 20 years he has been a wide-ranging critic for The New Yorker. He has written seven novels, including one called Heritage about a boy outgrowing his resentment that his celebrated parents never bothered to marry. Reading David Rees Among Others, one inevitably begins to wonder what is, and what is not, literally true. The result is profoundly corrosive to that suspension of literal...
...weave them into articulate patterns, deserve the highest praise for their effort, and for their courage. Not the least value of their work is the dialogue it may provoke. Since the appearance of Reich's original 30,000-word article in the September 26 issue of the New Yorker -a superbly ironic vehicle with its two columns of corporate state persuasion for every column of Reich's text-there has been incessant buzzing about it in both political and academic circles. John Galbraith and George Kennan have each written a personal response in the Times...
Typically, New Yorker Robert Kertz lost his $350-a-week job as a senior planning analyst at Eastern Airlines last January; since then, he has worked only two months during the summer as a consultant. Airlines are not hiring, and Kertz finds that no other employers have any interest in him, since he has spent his entire career in that business. He and his wife must try to meet basic living expenses of $600 to $700 a month on $75-a-week unemployment compensation. In Manhattan, Michael Parsons, laid off from a Madison Avenue job, has come up with...
...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...