Best New Yorker Articles of 1964
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1964 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Calvin Trillin (4)
Most featured section: Profiles
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REPORTER AT LARGE consisting of reminiscences brought on when the writer looks out of his office window to W. 43 St. He sees the Hotel Dixie where his …
In New York State's maximum security prison at Dannemora, in the Adirondack Mountains, bobsledding was a routine winter activity. The men could take a …
The writer traces the degeneration of the Kirits of Madra. India, a family she knew during herchildhood. Mr. Kirit's rise in Madras had been …
An African tells whey he is staying in Cape Town. It is because there are no Tsotsis. You do not see them in Cape Town because there are not many black …
PROFILE of the Mafia movement & about the battle of Mount Cammarata on Sicily. On. Jul. 10, '43, the Allied Armies landed on Sicily. For the Americans,…
PROFILE of the Mafia in Sicily. At the end of World War II the peasants in Sicily, living in squalor, responded favorably to Communist influence from the …
PROFILE of the Mafia in Sicily. The veil of secrecy surrounding this powerful organization was partially lifted in 1962 when the Sicilian newspaper …
PROFILE of artist Robert Rauschenberg, 38. Together with Jasper Johns, who is 5 years younger, he has often been referred to as the co-founder of the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about New York's air pollution. The major air pollutant is sulphur-dioxide gas. It comes because we use for fuel bituminous coal and …
Parody of the new "Herald Tribune" which conveys the heartbeat of the city by addressing the reader directly, in the 2nd person. One of the excerpts given …
Paul, a medical student, a witty & romantic intellectual, and a Jew, had to leave his studies at the Vienna university in 1938. At Hachsharah, a Zionist …
In her 46th year, Mrs. Farley, who cleaned houses in London, found a boyfriend. Both had dreary marriages, were nearly 46, & were keen gardeners. They took…
REPORTER AT LARGE about Sun City, Ariz., a town that was created 4 years ago, specifically for retired people, & now contains about 7500 of them. It is 12 …
PROFILE of Cambridge, Mass.: its scientific community; its industrial fringe along Route 128, & its two seats of learning, Harvard and MIT, which have …
PROFILE of Cambridge, Mass., speaks of the renaissance the hospital world of Baston has undergone of late. This world consists mainly of Harvard, Tufts, & …
PROFILE of Cambridge, Mass., and the globalization of its academic world, tells about MIT's Center for International Studies. Interview with Lincoln …
PROFILE of Mary Lou Williams, pianist, arranger and composer, who is now appearing at the Hickory House.
Pres. Johnson recently has been criticized for lifting a beagle by the ears. On several occasions, as a boy, the writer was lifted by his ears, & as far as…
Richard H. Rovere on George Wallace’s campaign in 1964.
The writer is bored by his fellow-guests who are discussing wine. He thinks about the Greeks. They were fond of wine and took trouble over its manufacture.…
After ten years of writing program notes for "TV Guide," Redburn Backspace, completed his novelorama "Man's Face." His editors dispute that his work …
PROFILE of William Francis Gibbs, naval architect & head of Gibbs & Cox, the largest private ship-designing firm in the world. It is reported to have …
In the summer of 1948, the writer, at age 20, followed her mother, her grandparents & her Uncle Paul to the Dominican Republic. She last had seen her …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Zulus a group of Negroes who parade in blackface makeup in the New Orleans Mardi Gras. In New Orleans, "downtown" used to …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a trip to the Antarctic. Description of the McMurdo camp and the Pole and Byrd stations where more than a thousand men are going …
Alice Blaine dreams uneasily of her children: Jenny, 8, Pete, 4, and Tommy, 2. She awakens, calling for her husband, John, in the nightmare of her tub-bath…
The flame hollows the dark cliff. The green-wrapped folds show no increase. Sun will follow sun as if the day had not been dimmed ... The crowd stood in …
From 1964: An explorer-type bound to the suburbs endeavors to “swim across the county” through his neighbors’ backyard pools, drinking liquor along the way.
Story about a bachelor and his girl going to buy a wedding ring, so she won't be embarrassed when she meets the neighbors on the stairs of their …
PROFILE of a Protestant Episcopal church, the Church of St. Matthew and St. Timothy, on W. 84th St., tracing its history through mergers and changes of …
PROFILE of the episcopalian Church of St. Matthew & St. Timothy on W. 84th St., its rector, Rev. James A. Gusweller, & of his war on housing conditions in …
PROFILE of Ambassador Angier Biddle Duke, age 48, Chief of Protocol of the United States. He was appointed to this post by Pres. Kennedy Jan. 25, 1961. It …
PROFILE of Long Island Sound. Last summer the writer and two companions took a two-week trip around the Sound in a cruising sailboat. A journal of the trip…
From 1964: Calvin Trillin on an encounter with Martin Luther King, Jr., during a summer of pressure.
PROFILE of Long Island Sound and an account of a sail cruise along its shores. Milford, ten years ago seemed wonderfully unchanged from older days, and the…
REPORTER AT LARGE about the role of the individual delegate attending a National Convention. Mr. Harris followed one such delegate, John A. Garbarino, …
Joseph Mitchell’s classic profile of the Greenwich Village bohemian Joe Gould.
Part 2 of Joseph Mitchell’s classic Profile of the Greenwich Village bohemian Joe Gould, who claimed to have authored the longest book ever written.
Richard H. Rovere on the 1964 Presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the U.S. nuclear armament program. Writer interviewed a number of Washington officials & scientists asking how far the arms race …
REPORTER AT LARGE about spending several days in the Mid-West and the upper South observing Pres. Johnson as he campaigned. It was his first sustained tour…
Nat Hentoff’s portrait of the artist trying to move past “finger-pointing” songs, and finding a new voice in the process.
PROFILE of B. H. Blackwell, Ltd., of Oxford, and about the book trade in Britain. Today, the book trade is healthier in Britain than in any other …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about Salisbury, Connecticut; its history and a look at modern Salisbury. A new high school the Housatonic Valley Regional High School,…
AN AMERICAN'S NOTES ON CANADIAN CULTURE A REPORTER AT LARGE about Canadian culture, its history as presented by Francis Parkman, the American Mason …
AN AMERICAN'S NOTES ON CANADIAN CULTURE 2nd part of REPORTER AT LARGE about Canadian culture deals with French Canada & devotes several chapters to …
PROFILE of John Cage, avant-garde American composer, now 52. He is proposing the complete overthrow of the most basic assumptions of Western art since the …
In 1920, Sarah Talmon, daughter of the late rabbi of Marniyus in Lithuania, came to stay with two elderly brothers who were cousins of her mother's. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about India's ex-Untouchables. Siddharth College in Bombay was founded by the great Untouchable leader B.R. Ambedkar. Writer spoke …
REPORTER AT LARGE about India's ex-Untouchables. The Untouchables, since pre-history, were kept apart below the bottom of Hindu society by religiously …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a proposed national monument - Islandia National Monument, which would consist of a string of densely wooded coral islands, lying …