PROFILE of Jonas Mekas, champion of the underground cinema, filmmaker, & writer. A Lithuanian of 50, he is also noted for his "Film Culture" journal, his …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1973
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1973 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Whitney Balliett (5)
Most featured section: Profiles
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In London Prof. Pemberton Johnson was visiting his friends Professors Philip Scropes and his wife Nora. Pemberton fled to America at the beginning of World…
PROFILE of jazz pianist Marian McPartland. According to her, becoming a jazz musician in her time with her sex & background was like pulling teeth. Tells …
PROFILE of Jacques Tati, the great French comedian & movie-maker. His films include "Jour de Fete" (1949), "Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1953), "Mon Oncle" …
PROFILE of John Gordon, one of the few first-rate Americana folk-art antique dealers. Gordon, who runs his business almost singlehandedly, has been in the …
PROFILE of the Aereon aircraft,developed by Princeton, N.J.-based Aereon Corporation, composed of engineers, ministers, & consultants. Founded in 1959 by …
Fiction, from 1973: “Every month, the Lentshin letter carrier brought old Berl a money order and a letter that no one could read because many of the words were English. How much money Samuel sent his parents remained a secret.”
Calvin Trillin’s Sunday-morning visits to Russ & Daughters, Tanenbaum’s, and Ben’s Dairy, on the Lower East Side, to buy breakfast ingredients for the perfect bagel with lox and cream cheese.
Susan Evans and Scobie, the boy with whom she has been living, were visiting her parents' home outside Boston. Mr. Evans, who plays a trumpet at a …
PROFILE of Albert Einstein. Long discourse on physics & the developments in that field--Newtonian mechanics & Maxwell's equations governing electricity…
PROFILE of Albert Einstein. Discusses the development of physics after his 1905 relativity theory. Discusses gravitation, cosmology & Planck's quantum …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the illicit pre-Columbian-art market, and the looting of archeological sites in Mexico & Guatemala. Tells about the new popularity …
REPORTER AT LARGE about museum-acquisition practices & archeological discoveries in Turkey, which have been plundered & illegally sold abroad.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the illicit Italian art market & the deterioration of art works in Italy. Tells about the suspicious origins of the Greek vase …
The writer, an adolescent girl, takes piano lessons from Mr. Parker, who commutes to a job in Wall St., & gives lessons on the side - for pleasure. She …
A series of reflections on the father-son relationship. The first one describes the author's own son. He wishes for perfection. He would be a better …
PROFILE of Georgia biologist-ecologist Carol Ruckdeschel, of Atlanta. In her Atlanta house, where she stays for short periods, she keeps a myriad of …
Jonathan Schell on the Watergate case and the need to reaffirm American democracy.
PROFILE of Rev. Edward Thomas Hougen, of the Central Congregational Church, in Orange, Mass. (pop. 6,188). Spirit in Flesh, a rock from the Brotherhood of …
Lengthy mention in REPORTER AT LARGE about an interview with Walter Frederick Mondale, 45, a Democratic senator from Minnesota. He talked about the federal…
PROFILE of singer Blossom Dearie. Writer spends a day with her, visiting her at her Greenwich Village apt., going with her to a recording session, having …
Jonathan Schell’s 1973 Comment on the Watergate affair and the Nixon Administration's suppression of “actual facts.”
PROFILE of Jerome Zerbe, society photographer. For 40 years (he is 68) he has taken pictures of attractive people on delightful occasions, & they number …
PROFILE of black playwright Ed Bullins. At 37, he has written over 30 plays, by his count. Since 1967 he has been involved with & is the assoc. director of…
The author at one time counselled readers for a Yiddish newspaper. Late one Friday, a man in his eighties, named Sam Opal, came to tell the author, who …
(Told in the first person.) In southern England, when Frederick Galloway was 13, his father died. He had been a railway booking clerk, & was never …
PROFILE of Alec Wilder, 66-year-old composer. He is a unique & adventurous composer, who has written a huge body of music, both popular & formal, most of …
PROFILE of the Appalachian town of Welch, West Virginia county seat of McDowell County, rich in coal & poor in people. McDowell is known in the industrial …
REPORTER AT LARGE about an interview with John Gardner head of Common Cause, the citizens' lobby. He wants to reform the American political system. A …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the case of Susan Cook Russo, a young art teacher, who was fired in June 1970 from Sperry High School in Henrietta, N.Y. (a …
PROFILE of the endangered great whale population, which is difficult for field biologists to study. Whales are worth $10,000-$30,000 apiece as …
Story that gives instructions for talking to vegetables to make them thrive. Writer cites the personalities of various "veggies," pointing out that what …
Story about narrator's boyhood in the northeast corner of Ulster, in Ireland. His Roman Catholic family shared a house with Willy & Jinny Norris, a …
Nora Barrett, in her early thirties, was on her way by ferry to a beach resort (probably Fire Island) to spend a few days with her parents at their rented …
PROFILE of Canyon County, Idaho from the point of view of the work of the office of the county agent. The chief agent is Merle R. Samson. A county agent is…
PROFILE about the current state of this Long Island community, in Suffolk County. Interviews with its residents--black & white, and tells about its …
Harold Brodkey reminisces about his dying mother & his state of mind when he was 13. The family was Jewish. It was 1943, in St. Louis, & Doris Brodkey, his…
PROFILE of Robert Elliott & Ray Goulding, who, as "Bob and Ray" have introduced to radio, television & theatre a unique company of comic characters, among …
Richard Harris writes about the contentious relationships between U.S. Presidents and the press, especially Richard Nixon’s hostility toward the media.
PROFILE of Ralph Nader, 39, consumer activist, who first came into the public eye in 1965, 7 years after graduation from Harvard Law School, with the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the 1970 census--its statistics and significance. There were 203 million Americans alive in 1970--almost twice as many as in 1920. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the 1970 census. Discusses (all in detailed statistics) the effect of immigrants on the population, which in 1870 constituted 15% …
A 1973 Comment on Nixon’s firing of the Watergate prosecutor, Archibald Cox.
PROFILE of Dolores Garcia, who lives with her husband Domingo in a small adobe house in New Mexico. Both are 83 years old; they are Mexican-Americans. …
A 1973 Comment on the Saturday Night Massacre and Nixon's handling of the Watergate crisis.
Charles Neumiller, a carpenter of German-Catholic parentage, receives a telegram telling him of his father's death. He takes a train to his …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the damage done by an oil spill, not far from West Falmouth Harbor at Cape Cod, Mass. It took place on Sept. 15, 1969 when a tug & …
PROFILE of Theodore B. Taylor, 48, a nuclear physicist, who worries about the possibility of people fabricating an atomic bomb on their own with nuclear …
PROFILE of nuclear physicist Theodore B. Taylor. He was a conceptual designer of nuclear bombs at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory from 1949 to 1956. He …
Erica Jong’s “Fear of Flying” belongs to, and hilariously extends, the tradition of “Catcher in the Rye” and “Portnoy’s Complaint,” John Updike writes in this 1973 review of the novel.
PROFILE of Sarah Caldwell, 45, perhaps the finest operatic stage director in America, who presides over the Opera Company of Boston. This is one of the few…
PROFILE of Atlanta, Ga., where the city's white power structure has had to adapt to the changes effected by the election of a liberal Jewish mayor in …