Fiction, from 1967: “He understood that one destiny is no better than another but that every man should revere the destiny he bears within him.”
Best New Yorker Articles of 1967
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1967 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Anthony Bailey (4)
Most featured section: A Reporter at Large
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The writer recalls her Paris childhood with a Russian emigree governess, Lydia Romanovna Mishansky. A hypochondriac, the governess imposed her diseases on …
PROFILE of jazz drummer, Buddy Rich, who last fall brought a new fourteen-piece band into Basin Street East. He enlisted in the Marines in 1942. He was the…
Herby the policeman, who had been on probation for the payoffs they found out about, went into the pool room before work. Sal was playing Jerry, a noisy …
PROFILE of Charles Abrams, 65, a New York housing and city-planning expert, who has been sent on numerous missions by the United Nations to developing …
Satire on the epidemic of recent art thefts. Tells about one from the Smithsonian Institution, of the Sprit of St. Louis.
Renata Adler’s 1967 piece about young hippies on L.A.’s Sunset Strip.
PROFILE of Ootacamund, or Ooty, in Indian, known as the Queen of the Hill Stations in British colonial days, because of its beauty & cool climate. The …
PROFILE of Ootacamund, or Ooty, in the Blue Hills of South India, known as the Queen of the Hill Stations in British colonial days. In 1908 Sir Frederick …
Charlie Bursby, a glum friend of mine, asked me to meet him for a drink. He was morose. Being merely 38, he was between what Time Magazine has labeled the …
A British art critic encounters a nouveau-riche American lady while covering a Post-Impressionist Exhibition in Paris. He ridicules her pronunciation of …
PROFILE of the Xerox Corporation. Among the more immediate problem of xerography is the overwhelming temptation it offers to violate the copyright laws. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the business of campaigning for public office, specifically about the race for a seat in the House of Representatives from the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about group psychotherapy, an unorthodox form of treatment for troubled people. The meet in groups with a therapist in charge, & …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Kansas reaction to the war in Vietnam. Highlights of opinion and activity in Russell Protection, Salina, Topeka, Junction City, …
PROFILE of Edmund Wilson, now 72, in the form of autobiographical reminiscences. He began keeping a journal in 1914. The first part deals predominantly …
PROFILE of Edmund Wilson, now 72, in the form of autobiographical reminiscences. He began keeping a journal in 1914. The first part deals predominantly …
Fiction, from 1967: “That night in my bed he was both stranger and lover, which I used to think was the ideal bed partner.”
PROFILE of Thomas P. F. Hoving, the former N. Y. C. Commissioner of Parks and now the Director of the Metropolitan Museum. In '59, when Homing was a …
From 1967: Michael J. Arlen on television coverage of the Vietnam War.
In the chopped-up world of television, where old movies now proliferate, the past has become meaninglessly present, Pauline Kael writes.
Was Lee Harvey Oswald innocent? From 1967, Calvin Trillin on the group of “assassination buffs” investigating the mysteries and conspiracy theories surrounding J.F.K.’s death.
The author, who majored in madrigal singing at a Montana college, found he had an uncanny talent for translating words from foreign languages he didn't…
The writer probes the private thoughts of various members of the Organization (the U.N.). Leslie, a secretary, is trapped in a dull typing job, remote from…
REPORTER AT LARGE from Israel about the week-long Arab-Israeli war. The Jerusalem "Post" never stopped publishing and carried full, newsy accounts from …
Jonathan Schell’s 1967 report from a Vietnamese village.
PROFILE of the Northeast Corridor, the area from Boston to Washington, often called megalopolis. Writer decided to drive his Jeep the full length of …
PROFILE of the Northeast Corridor, the area from Boston to Washington, which the writer traversed. The them of conservation runs all through his journey. …
PROFILE about a trip through the region known as the Northeast Corridor, or megalopolis, which extends 450 miles or more from north of Boston to south of …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a couple of days spent on the Cabeza Prieta trails, starting from the little copper-mining town of Ajo, in the Sonoran Desert of …
Visit to Jordan and Israel for the purpose of finding out the latest news of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Mr. Wilson stayed at the American School of Oriental …
PROFILE of Frederick (Ted) Hood, a 40-year-old selftaught sailmaker, yacht designer, and yacht-racing enthusiast. His sails will power most of the Twelve …
REPORTER AT LARGE about zoos. Some people think wild animals are unhappy in captivity but that is not true What the occupants of a zoo suffer from most is …
REPORTER AT LARGE about writer's visit to India in 1965 after an absence of six years. Originally he left India in 1949, & having received all his …
PROFILE of Joseph E. Levine, film distributor & producer, head of Embassy Pictures Corp., 1301 6th Ave. Highlights of his activities in 1966 described by …
REPORTER AT LARGE about visits to Japanese zoos and to the Japan Monkey Center at Inuyama. It was a big story when, in 1965, two Japanese-an anthropologist…
REPORTER AT LARGE about private animal collectors and zoos. The 11th Duke of Bedford, built up the fine animal collection in the late 19th century that …
A 1967 interview with the singer at her Institute for the Study of Non-Violence, in Carmel Valley, California.
REPORTER AT LARGE of a meeting at the San Diego Zoo of delegates to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Survival …
Pauline Kael on Arthur Penn’s 1967 film, “Bonnie and Clyde,” starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Grand Cayman, remote island in the Caribbean & a turtle fishing Voyage to the Miskito Bank on the ship Lydia E. Wilson, …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Twiggy, England's foremost teen-age fashion model. Teddy the Monk, who said his last name is Adams, acted as her bodyguard. He …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the U.S. by a Polish writer. He gives his impressions of Santa Fe. He does not like stylization in architecture or art, …
PROFILE of Samuel B. Gould, the chancellor of the State University of N.Y., tells about the development of public education in N.Y. State. The regents …
PROFILE of the Pine Barrens, a large tract of wilderness in central & southern N.J., and the inhabitants of the place. In 1913, Elizabeth Kite, a …
PROFILE of the Pine Barrens a large underdeveloped tract in the south-central part of N.J. Chatsworth in Woodland Township, is the principal community in …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Indian music and musicians. Alauddin Khan, who isknown simply as Baba (Urdu for "old man") is one of India's finest musicians. …
Winthrop Sargeant on the beloved young conductor of the Metropolitan Opera. At thirty-one, he has already mastered Western classical music—and flummoxed the generations who thought a Bombay native could never do so.
REPORTER AT LARGE about harvesting wild rice. Visit to Lower Rice Lake in the White Earth Chippewa Indian Reservation in northwestern Minnesota at the …
An English woman and her grown son, Harold are at an Italian ski resort. The mother, greedy for people, and very uncomfortable with Harold, has befriended …