Word: algonquin
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...punk, heavy metal and all their noisy alloys. That makes Michael Feinstein, 30, either the oldest young singer of the '80s or the youngest old singer. Or perhaps both. What does he like? Just sit back and listen to the first number on his enchanting album, Live at the Algonquin (Parnassus Records): "Wanna sing a show tune,/ Good old Broadway show tune,/ Nothing that has no tune,/ Something that has heart./ Something you can hum, or can strum by the hour...
...argument did not sway Gottlieb, who lunched next day with Shawn at the Algonquin Hotel, the fabled watering hole of such bygone New Yorker wits as Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker. The two men had never met. As they settled at Shawn's regular table, Gottlieb gave Shawn his reply to the petition, a three-sentence note that expressed sympathy but declared his intention "to take up this new job." As Gottlieb toyed with his omelet and Shawn ate an English muffin, the two decided that Gottlieb should take over in mid- February, after a week spent working with Shawn...
...rendered useless by the lack of a trust fund, laments, "My parents have never had much use for me," and wheedles a large check from a relative. Emily, with every possible creature comfort, cannot escape the persistent complaint of the dilettante: envy. Gaping at the writers headed for the Algonquin Round Table, she "longed to know such people, share their brilliance, know what they took to be important. She wondered if she could hold her own with Bob Sherwood and George Jean Nathan and Woollcott and Mencken, but she would probably never meet them...
...today number about 400,000. But not until last week was an Indian admitted to the church's hierarchy. In a colorful ordination Mass, combining standard Catholic liturgy with the chants and dances of the Navajo, Pueblo and Apache tribes, Donald Pelotte, 41, an Abenaki from the far-off Algonquin nation (the Northeastern U.S.) became bishop of the 45,000-member New Mexico and Arizona diocese of Gallup...
...York," grumbled a California editor last year, "they are convinced that nothing can happen except in the area of Manhattan bounded by the lounge of the Algonquin and the dining room of the Four Seasons." Then came Evan Connell's Son of the Morning Star, a brilliant account of General George Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn. It climbed the best-seller list and remained there for six months. Not for the first time, the industry was forced to admit that some of the nation's better publishing houses are located a world away from New York...