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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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For Spacious Skies and Ample Waves of Green
Calvin Trillin · Fiction · January 4

Short story set in the future, concerning American and Russian astronauts. Seven Patriots, Inc. is the astronauts' business corporation.

PAYSAGE DE CREPUSCULE.
A. J. Liebling · A Reporter at Large · January 11

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 …

All the Prisoners Drove Away
John V. Whitaker · Fiction · January 18

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 …

Too late for Anger
Padma Perera · Fiction · January 25

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 …

The Tsotsis and the Pondos
Anthony Delius · Fiction · February 1

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 …

THE HONORED SOCIETY
Norman Lewis · Profiles · February 8

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,…

II-THE HONORED SOCIETY.
Norman Lewis · Profiles · February 15

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 …

III-THE HONORED SOCIETY.
Norman Lewis · Profiles · February 22

PROFILE of the Mafia in Sicily. The veil of secrecy surrounding this powerful organization was partially lifted in 1962 when the Sicilian newspaper …

MOVING OUT.
· Profiles · February 29

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 …

FIFTEEN THOUSAND QUARTS OF AIR.
Edith Iglauer · A Reporter at Large · March 7

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 …

Jimmy Bennett Doexn't Work Here Any More
J. Q. Purcell · Fiction · March 14

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 …

Other People's Houses, Sosua
Lore Segal · Fiction · March 21

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 …

Lovely to Look at, Delightful to Hold
Edna O’Brien · Fiction · March 28

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…

WAKE UP AND LIVE.
Calvin Trillin · A Reporter at Large · April 4

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 …

I-CENTER OF A NEW WORLD.
Christopher Rand · Profiles · April 11

PROFILE of Cambridge, Mass.: its scientific community; its industrial fringe along Route 128, & its two seats of learning, Harvard and MIT, which have …

CENTER OF A NEW WORLD
Christopher Rand · Profiles · April 18

PROFILE of Cambridge, Mass., speaks of the renaissance the hospital world of Baston has undergone of late. This world consists mainly of Harvard, Tufts, & …

CENTER OF A NEW WORLD
Christopher Rand · Profiles · April 25

PROFILE of Cambridge, Mass., and the globalization of its academic world, tells about MIT's Center for International Studies. Interview with Lincoln …

OUT HERE AGAIN
Whitney Balliett · Profiles · May 2

PROFILE of Mary Lou Williams, pianist, arranger and composer, who is now appearing at the Hickory House.

Was Lifted by Ears as Boy, No Harm Done
E. B. White · Fiction · May 9

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…

On the Trail with George Wallace
Richard H. Rovere · Letter from Washington · May 16

Richard H. Rovere on George Wallace’s campaign in 1964.

Shall We, For God's Sake, Join The Ladies?
H. F. Ellis · Fiction · May 23

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.…

Man's Face (A New Novel in Forty Coaxial Chapters)
Donald Barthelme · Fiction · May 30

After ten years of writing program notes for "TV Guide," Redburn Backspace, completed his novelorama "Man's Face." His editors dispute that his work …

THE BEST I KNOW HOW
Winthrop Sargeant · Profiles · June 6

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 …

Other People's Houses, Santiago
Lore Segal · Fiction · June 13

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 …

THE ZULUS
Calvin Trillin · A Reporter at Large · June 20

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 …

BORROWED LIGHT
Alan Moorehead · A Reporter at Large · June 27

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
Vera Randal · Fiction · July 4

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…

On the Occasion of WhatWas To Have Been His 47th Birthday
Richard N. Goodwin · Fiction · July 11

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 …

The Swimmer
John Cheever · Fiction · July 18

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.

Bachelor
Anatole Broyard · Fiction · July 25

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 …

CHURCH - 1,
Robert Rice · Profiles · August 1

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 …

CHURCH
Robert Rice · Profiles · August 8

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 …

GOOD MANNERS AND COMMON SENSE.
E. J. Kahn · Profiles · August 15

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 …

I-THE INLAND SEA.
Morton M. Hunt · Profiles · August 22

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…

The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
Calvin Trillin · Letter from Jackson · August 29

From 1964: Calvin Trillin on an encounter with Martin Luther King, Jr., during a summer of pressure.

THE INLAND SEA
Morton M. Hunt · Profiles · September 5

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…

DELEGATE
Richard Harris · A Reporter at Large · September 12

REPORTER AT LARGE about the role of the individual delegate attending a National Convention. Mr. Harris followed one such delegate, John A. Garbarino, …

Joe Gould’s Secret—I
Joseph Mitchell · Profiles · September 19

Joseph Mitchell’s classic profile of the Greenwich Village bohemian Joe Gould.

Joe Gould’s Secret—II
Joseph Mitchell · Profiles · September 26

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.

The Campaign: Goldwater
Richard H. Rovere · A Reporter at Large · October 3

Richard H. Rovere on the 1964 Presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater.

AN INQUIRY INTO ENOUGHNESS.
Daniel Lang · A Reporter at Large · October 10

REPORTER AT LARGE about the U.S. nuclear armament program. Writer interviewed a number of Washington officials & scientists asking how far the arms race …

THE CAMPAIGN: JOHNSON.
Richard H. Rovere · A Reporter at Large · October 17

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…

What Bob Dylan Wanted at Twenty-three
Nat Hentoff · Profiles · October 24

Nat Hentoff’s portrait of the artist trying to move past “finger-pointing” songs, and finding a new voice in the process.

QUIET, BENEFICENT THINGS
Ved Mehta · Profiles · October 31

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 …

HOME TOWN
Christopher Rand · A Reporter at Large · November 7

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,…

O CANADA
Edmund Wilson · A Reporter at Large · November 14

AN AMERICAN'S NOTES ON CANADIAN CULTURE A REPORTER AT LARGE about Canadian culture, its history as presented by Francis Parkman, the American Mason …

O Canada
Edmund Wilson · A Reporter at Large · November 21

AN AMERICAN'S NOTES ON CANADIAN CULTURE 2nd part of REPORTER AT LARGE about Canadian culture deals with French Canada & devotes several chapters to …

FIGURE IN AN IMAGINARY LANDSCAPE.
· Profiles · November 28

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 …

A Meeting At Dors River
Dan Jacobson · Fiction · December 5

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. …

I-THE EX-UNTOUCHABLES
Harold R. Isaacs · A Reporter at Large · December 12

REPORTER AT LARGE about India's ex-Untouchables. Siddharth College in Bombay was founded by the great Untouchable leader B.R. Ambedkar. Writer spoke …

II-THE EX-UNTOUCHABLES.
Harold R. Isaacs · A Reporter at Large · December 19

REPORTER AT LARGE about India's ex-Untouchables. The Untouchables, since pre-history, were kept apart below the bottom of Hindu society by religiously …

THE LAST OF THE KEYS.
Berton Roueché · A Reporter at Large · December 26

REPORTER AT LARGE about a proposed national monument - Islandia National Monument, which would consist of a string of densely wooded coral islands, lying …

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