WikiMatrix They would never destroy or remove when they could achieve their ends by creating astate of mind. Mai no destruirien ni traurien res si podien aconseguir els seus objectius creant unestat mental. Literature (Laughter) But that just indicates thestate of mind, you know. ...
A Decade of Delights With this post (No. 413), we mark the tenth anniversary of The New Yorker. Since I began A New Yorker State of Mind in March 2015, I’ve attempted to give you at least a sense of what the magazine was like in those first years, as well as the historical ...
Anderson was a man of the world, so he knew exactly what Stewart’s was all about. But even the New Yorker wasn’t in the business of outing anyone, and editor Harold Ross, whose eccentricities included a puritanical strain, would not have allowed anything associated with “sexual deviance...
State Secrets: Wikileaks reveal Devastating US DocumentsBigKnetotseMrOneNaijaHolyPaganshinycoinDapxinNigeria on my mindI Love Nigeria
(Jeff Boyce/Wikimedia Commons) * * * A Captain’s Curios “The Talk of the Town” also paid a visit to Captain Charley’s Private Museum for Intelligent People, a place that would later be visited (and written about) by The New Yorker’s chronicler of the commonplace, Joseph Mitchell...
HOME SWEET HOME…At top,Alva VanderbiltengagedRichard Morris Huntto build a “Petite Chateau” on the northwest corner of 52ndStreet; below, the drawing room. The Triple Palace was demolished in 1947-49. (mcny.org/Wikimedia Commons)
interior of a Boeing 247—note the steps in the aisle used to cross over the support beams that reinforced the 247’s wings. Also note the female attendant—the profession was dominated by male stewards in the first years of passenger service, but in the 1930s women took over the professio...
Georgia On His Mind The opening of the Museum of Modern Art in late 1929 had a profound effect onThe New Yorker’sart criticMurdockPemberton. In the beginning he dismissed the museum as just another place for the old money crowd to throw parties, but with the opening of its third exhibitio...
“It is all so discouraging; so very, very, sad. Six million people in New York, and apparently no one in the white-collar class who can lose himself for a moment in the ecstasy of a roller-coaster. Six million people in New York, and every one of them a curious little study in ...
(it is estimated she infected up to 122 people, resulting in as many as four-dozen deaths). When she was finally arrested in 1915, she was returned to North Brother Island, where she would live out her days.Stanley Walker(1898–1962), a native Texan, longtime editor of theNew York ...