Word: hering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"If a man is drunk--and what few drunks we have are usually that way when they come in here--there's no need to lay a finger on him," says Jack Spear, manager of the Wursthaus. "Tact. That's the way to handle him. Place him on a pedestal...
From here on out, the propaganda situation in Europe looks poor. After a fine economic recovery, France is bogging down with strikes and shortages. So is Italy. There is an increasing feeling among ECA men that the only thing which can prop up fading Western European appreciation of the U...
". . . A thin crowd, a summer-night buzz of fans interrupted by an occasional drink being shaken at the small bar. It is dark in here . . . Fans in the prayer for cool salvation. From the next booth drifts the conversation of radio executives; from the green salad comes the little taste...
But E.B. White, poet, humorists, and editorial for the New Yorker, has written something called "Here is New York," has given it meaning, and has done all this in 54 pages. He did in the only conceivable manner: One summer day he left his sometime home in Maine (where the...
"Here is New York" is rarely analytical; it is through emotional, so effectively emotional that few readers will be able to reject the sensations that it offers. But the only readers who will fully appreciate White's book will be New Yorkers, who have lived among the profoundly felt New...