Best New Yorker Articles of 1971
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1971 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: John McPhee (4)
Most featured section: Profiles
Featured Picks
REPORTER AT LARGE about whether or not the US gov't. intends to use nuclear weapons in Indo-China. Writer talked with many people--officials in the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the possible health hazards of enzyme detergents. About 80% of all laundry products sold today contain enzyme preparations designed…
Sixties Hollywood ushered in a tidal wave of commercial romantic slop, and now bad movies are more popular than good books, Pauline Kael writes. Can independent criticism save the day?
PROFILE of Algernon Charles Swinburne & Theodore Watts-Dunton, who lived together 30 years at The Pines. Tells mostly about the work that each writer …
PROFILE of Algernon Charles Swinburne & Theodore Watts-Dunton, who lived together 30 years at The Pines in Putney, England. Tells about the latter years of…
REPORTER AT LARGE about an examination of 18 cases in which Black Panthers were allegedly killed by police. The idea that the police have declared a sort …
Pauline Kael's 1971 essay on “Citizen Kane,” Orson Welles, and Herman J. Mankiewicz.
Part two of Pauline Kael's 1971 essay on “Citizen Kane,” Orson Welles, and Herman J. Mankiewicz.
PROFILE of Beverly Sills, lyric coloratura, and America's most famous opera singer. She was born Belle Silverman in Brooklyn, in 1929. Tells how much …
REPORTER AT LARGE about East Garfield Park Tenants Union in Chicago's black slum and the American Friends Service Committee; a Quaker founded and …
Part 1 of John McPhee’s Profile of the environmentalist and longtime head of the Sierra Club David Brower and the birth of the modern conservation movement.
Part 2 of John McPhee’s Profile of the environmentalist and longtime head of the Sierra Club David Brower and the birth of the modern conservation movement.
Part 3 of John McPhee’s Profile of the environmentalist and longtime head of the Sierra Club David Brower and the birth of the modern conservation movement.
PROFILE of John Usher Monro, former dean of Harvard College & now director of freshman studies at Miles College, a small, unaccredited, hand-to-mouth black…
REPORTER AT LARGE about primates--apes & monkeys--used in medical & psychobiological research. Writer gives the history of such research, dealing mainly …
REPORTER AT LARGE bout primates--apes & monkeys--used in medical & psychobiological research. Writer visits several of this country's 7 Regional …
Borys Althusser, wealthy young manufacturer of sensitive electronic instruments, for which he has immense govt. contracts, discovers one evening that …
Three months after the writer arrived in London, where she was to work for a year in a publishing firm, she received an invitation from Misses Edith and …
PROFILE of English writer-humorist, P.G. Wodehouse. At 89, he is still one of the most prolific writer of all time, having written some 70-odd novels, over…
PROFILE of Joe Franklin, host of a TV talk show & a collector of old movies & records. The center of his life is his unusual talk show, which appears twice…
Whitney Balliett’s 1971 profile of the jazz musician Charles Mingus. “My book was written for black people, to tell them how to get through life,” Mingus said.
REPORTER AT LARGE about visit to Kent State University a year after 4 students were shot & killed by National Guardsmen during a campus demonstration …
In 1935, in Ybor City, a section of Tampa where Latin cigarmakers lived, there was a large family, among whom was Uncle Candido. He had been polled by the …
Writer describes maturing effect of a 27yr. old lawyer's love for an older woman(49yr. old Ann) & friendship with a senior partner in the law …
Mavis Gallant on the case of Gabrielle Russier, which scandalized France.
"The park consists of sixteen acres of land projecting south into Long Island Sound and bounded on the north by the tracks of the Penn Central railroad." …
“It is not easy to be a Minister's wife. People ask me to do all sorts of things that I don't like. They ask me to sit on welfare committees and give away prizes as cultural shows.”
On a summer afternoon the writer sat in a cafeteria in midtown N.Y. An acquaintance of his, Zelig Fingerbein, came in and sat with him, and told him his …
Talk story about Evel Knievel, a 32 year-old native of Butte, Montanan, who recently jumped over 10 automobiles with his motorcycle for the Madison Square …
PROFILE of Stonington, Conn. Writer & his family have lived there since 1961, & have become a part of the community. Writer describes life in this small …
The writer is obviously concerned about the fading of the wilderness. He speaks of this mainly in terms of the mountain lion, who used to roam over the …
PROFILE of London Metropolitan Police Force Constable Peter Roland Sawyer, who is attached to central London's Chelsea police station. Tells about …
These are 4 humorous fictitional submissions to the Bureau of Accomplishments & Awards. The third entry is from Howard Lebo, a lyricist, who hit upon …
Angered at the distortion of truth on TV quiz shows, the writer hoped to set a few of the facts on Lincoln straight, especially concerning his love of …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a Vietnam war veteran, Frank Reed (pseudonym). Tells how this 26-year-old former Marine Corps sergeant changed his feelings …
PROFILE of George Hartzog, Director of the National Park Service. The 50-year-old Park Service has had only 7 directors, & Hartzog is the 2nd to come up …
PROFILE of Cole Porter, songwriter, who died in 1964 at 73. Tells about his youth - attendance at Yale, sojurn in Paris. He was called a playboy, …
REPORTER AT LARGE about how man abuses the natural resources available to him on earth. Anything which fails to fit into the ecosphere is a threat to its …
REPORTER AT LARGE about pollution. Exploitation of the ecosystem is what generates economic growth, but the rate of the exploitation cannot increase …
PROFILE on two night club owners, Max Gordon & Barney Josephson. Josephson now runs a place called The Cookery, in the Village, but from 1938-1948 he owned…
PROFILE of Pres. Julius Kambarage Nyerere, of the United Republic of Tanzania. Tanzania was created in 1964, out of the independent nation Tanganyika. …
Jorge Luis Borges, in this short story rife with paradox and irony, from 1971, explores the rifts between Argentina’s social classes and questions the nature of sacrifice.
PROFILE of Julius K. Nyerere, Pres. of Tanzania. Tells why Nyerere seems to lean more toward countries like China & East Germany than toward the West. …
PROFILE of Henry Geldzahler, curator of the Metropolitan Museum's Dept. of 20th Century Art. Tells about his 1969 show for the Met's centennial …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Florissant fossil beds in Teller Co., Colo., 35 mi. west of Colorado Springs. The beds represent the richest repositories of …
PROFILE of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Percy Heath is the bass player in the group. He was born in Wilmington, N. Carolina, in 1923, then moved to …
Fiction, from 1971: “Here before our cubicles we sit quietly, content to suck the sweet flesh out of quartered oranges.”
PROFILE of prominent lawyer Francis T.P. Plimpton. At 70, he is senior partner in the law firm Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons & Gates. From 1968-1971, he was …
REPORTER AT LARGE about teaching chimpanzees sign language. Writer visits Dr. Wm. Lemmon's chimp colony in Norman, Okla., where a number of chimps can …
Lengthy mention in REPORTER AT LARGE about the writer's house, which he rents, in Old Brookville, L.I. It stand 11 feet from a heavily travelled …