PROFILE of Tony Bennett, who has become the most widely admired American popular singer. Writer spends a few days with him, at his East Side apartment, in …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1974
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1974 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Robert A. Caro (4)
Most featured section: Profiles
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PROFILE of Willy Brandt, 61, Chancellor of West Germany & chairman of the German Social Democratic Party. He is more a European statesman than a German …
This story is preceded by an excerpt from the London Times about a cloth that has been produced with gold thread. / Prince Florizel of Bohemia, and his …
Dr. Reginald Hobson, F.R.S., of Britain's Cavendish Laboratory shows a friend and colleague, Dr. Winston Watnick-Mealie, photos which he had Pioneer 10…
PROFILE of Woody Allen, comedian, writer & film producer. Allen works all the time, in California & N.Y.; one's impression is that he gives up anything…
Talk story about Bob Dylan and his recent concert at Madison Square Garden. Friends of the writer discuss Dylan's image and music. Gives highlights of …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Cuba. Writer visited there last summer, & saw the July 26 20th anniversary celebration of Castro's first armed gesture of …
PROFILE of Ted Adams, 44, a Cockney street trader of flowers & antiques in London, who is known as Teddy the Monk. He is in the junkier end of the …
Calvin Tomkins’s 1974 Profile of the painter, reported from Ghost Ranch, in New Mexico.
The writer is padding through East Side mid-Manhattan when he runs into his friend, Artie Pringle, who is standing on a day-long line in the rain waiting …
An English woman, now separeated from her husband, visits her uncle Eddie in Chunya, a small town in East Africa near Tanzania. She must take a charter …
REPORTER AT LARGE about firewood in N.Y. State. As petroleum reserves ran low early this winter a memorandum went out from Albany, from the director of the…
A Black woman is a patient in a mental hospital. One day, her dr. entrusts another patient, a young white boy who is the only son (Son is what they call …
PROFILE of the members of Akbar Hassan's family, who are among the 27,000 Uganda Asian settlers forced to leave for England when Gen. Amin expelled …
Section One A woman at a sanatorium for mental patients tells her story. Upon her arrival she is met by Mrs. April, the "transit-officer," who leads her to…
REPORTER AT LARGE about Alexander Marshack's innovative calendric interpretation of prehistoric cave art. It would appear unlikely that an untrained …
A boy of twelve is taken from his home in Providence to his aunt's house in the country because his mother is sick and cannot care for him. His …
Anne, the youngest of 7 children born to Jewish immigrants, reconstructs incidents concerning her mother. Her recollections extend over a period of many …
PROFILE of supertankers, which have evolved at an astonishing pace. Oil is the principal sea cargo; without oil tankers much of the world would simply …
Norman Mailer, Henry Ford, and others react to the “un-Presidential” tone of the Watergate tapes.
PROFILE of Georg Solti, 61, who has been chief conductor of the Chicago Symphony since 1969. In 1970, Solti & the Chicagoans suddenly became known as the …
PROFILE of Margaret Anderson (1886-1973), founder of "The Little Review" in Chicago in March 1914. Her most remarkable labor was the serialization, over 3 …
The writer is a 22 yr. old man spending some time on the island of Crete with his lover Susan, whom he has known for three yrs. The story is told through …
Fiction, from 1974: “They asked me, where did they go? The trees, the salamander, the tropical fish, Edgar, the poppas and mommas, Matthew and Tony?”
In the southern plains of India, in a large house gleaming white between the trees, Mina was playing in the cool garden. Mina was the daughter of a Hindu …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about the Fifth International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Future of the Brain Sciences, held in N.Y. The conference allowed a …
PROFILE of Ruby Braff, 47, the most intense, inventive, & eloquent trumpeter/cornettist we have. He came to the fore in the mid-1950's, with a style …
Ann, 44 is unhappily married to James, an English banker. At age 40, when all her children left home, Ann left London & travelled for nearly 2 years. She …
Robert A. Caro on how an idealistic urban planner discovered that decisions about the city’s future would not be based on democracy. They would be based on power.
Part 2 of Robert A. Caro’s 1974 report: To give New York City residents public beaches, Moses reappropriated dunes and woodlands to the east. Then he faced down the wealthy golfers who lived there.
Story about a park, which was laid out about 1840 at the end of a long cypress drive from the Tuscan villa. The estate was inherited by a religious couple,…
Part 3 of Robert A. Caro’s 1974 report: By the nineteen-fifties, Moses had total dominion over New York City’s housing, parks, and transportation. How did an unelected official gain so much control?
Part 4 of Robert A. Caro’s 1974 report: He warped New York’s democratic processes in order to achieve his own vision. What sort of city did he leave behind?
George W. S. Trow’s 1974 account of the wedding of Sly Stone and Kathy Silva, at Madison Square Garden.
REPORTER AT LARGE about misconceptions about and prolems of blue-collar workers. These are defined as craftsmen & foremen; operatives (men who operate …
PROFILE of American photographer Paul Strand. Strand, now well into his eighties lives with his third wife, the former Hazel Kingsbury, in Orgeval, France,…
Illustrated story about four painters who temporarily veered away from painting due to other interests. Emile Zola gave Paul Cezanne a motorcycle with a …
By Bill Horne Column by Ed Farr (today's replacement for Bill Horne who is sick) about the Flyers, a baseball team that played poorly this season. Farr…
After having separated from his wife, Jack Davis moved into a small N.Y. Village apt. & tried to forget his unsuccessful marriage to Irene. After 7 months …
A young Hungarian Jew and his family escaped Fascist Hungary in the 1920's and went to Vienna where the young man entered medical school. Because they …
PROFILE of garlic, quoting from many sources about the history of garlic use, its long-heralded therapeutic value, which has little basis in medical fact.
PROFILE of the late William Maurice Ewing (1906-1974), marine geophysicist, who founded the Lamont Geological Observatory in 1949. It has since become the …
PROFILE of the late William Maurice Ewing (1906-1974), marine geophysicist, who founded the Lamont Geological Observatory in 1949. Tells about his lifelong…
PROFILE of Maurice Ewing, marine geophysicist. Gives brief outline of geologic theories of the past, & describes Wegener's continental drift theory, …
Daniel Lang on the 1973 bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, during which four hostages began to sympathize with their captors.
REPORTER AT LARGE about exploitation of poor countries by multinational or global corporations. The men who run them make a credible try at managing the …
PROFILE of Arthur Loeb Mayer, the 87-yr. old movie businessman, now a motion-picture pedagogue. He was one of the first to make people aware that motion …
Woody Allen imagines a call-girl racket in which young, brainy women engage in intellectual—rather than physical—intercourse.
Calvin Tomkins’s 1974 profile of Julia Child, the co-author of “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” who was celebrated for her down-to-earth cooking style on the hit television program “The French Chef.”
Review of "Young Frankenstein,” with Gene Wilder in the title role. Critique of his acting in this & other films.