"'New York Sun,' R.I.P"
Scrapbook ‘New York Sun,’ R.I.P THE SCRAPBOOK has been wearing black this week, mourning the loss of the New York Sun, which published its last issue on September 30. Like its namesake, a...
...and we further concede that the folk-singing scene in Animal House (1978) is the highlight of the movie...
...Hindley was ordered to take a sensitivitytraining class...
...With no charges against him, no evidence of misconduct given him and no hearing, he refused in the spirit of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, for whom this university is named...
...We concede that the folk revival movement of the 1950s and early ’60s has a lot to answer for—Joan Baez, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone,” Pete Seeger, etc...
...The Academic Horror Show (cont...
...If you are a member of the Silent Generation, or a Baby Boomer who once possessed a hula hoop, you grew up listening to the Kingston Trio...
...As Waylon and Willie sang, “Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be professors...
...You can keep your Tocqueville quotes and your Virgil aphorisms: Where else but on network television have we explored the complexities of male bonding in America while advancing the national dialogue on race—and happily chuckling into the bargain...
...deepens our understanding of Blue Genes: A Memoir of Loss and Survival by Christopher Lukas by explaining that “if Tony was Oscar Madison, Kit is Felix Ungar...
...In his obituary for the paper, “Picking Up the Flag of the Sun,” Stephen Miller captured the joy and exuberance that characterize newspapering at its finest moments: Inside the Chambers Street newsroom, just a block from the original Sun offices across from City Hall, spirits ran high...
...Let us hope that, at some future date, worthy successors will again pick up this flag...
...But the Kingston Trio, to their credit, were as much interested in commercial success (also known as satisfying their audience) as in bogus “authenticity,” and they were talented musicians whose three-part harmonies were tight, highly rhythmic, and, for a decade straddling the Eisenhower/ Kennedy administrations, very appealing to Americans...
...Prospective news assistants were asked if they had driver’s licenses because, the managing editor explained, they might be called upon to drive the newspaper’s delivery trucks...
...Last fall, he described how Mexican migrants to the United States used to be discriminatorily called “wetbacks...
...Nat Hentoff reports in his latest column for the Washington Times on an outrage at Brandeis University...
...MTA,” by the way, was a lightningfast nonsense song about a man named Charlie who boarded the subway in Boston at the Kendall Square station but couldn’t leave the train because the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) had raised the fare during his ride (He may ride forever ’neath the streets of Boston / He’s the man who never returned...
...After an investigation, during which Mr...
...Hindley was not told the nature of the complaint, Brandeis Provost Marty Krauss informed Mr...
...Scrapbook ‘New York Sun,’ R.I.P THE SCRAPBOOK has been wearing black this week, mourning the loss of the New York Sun, which published its last issue on September 30...
...Our apologies to the thinkers at the New York Times Book Review...
...Metaphors We Could Have Done Without “Barney Frank is about to give Mister Market a big enema” (a CNBC guest remarking on the likelihood that the House of Representatives would pass the Treasury’s bailout plan, October 3...
...The Kingston Duo THE SCRAPBOOK felt a jolt of nostalgia last week when we read that Nick Reynolds, founder and lead singer of the Kingston Trio, had died at age 75...
...We’ve grown accustomed to the habit, among such distinguished Times op-ed essayists as Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich, Gail Collins, and others, of explaining the past and illuminating the present with incessant references to Mister Ed, The Godfather Part II, Huckleberry Hound, and The Cosby Show...
...In his review of The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners by David Fromkin, Johann Hari begins with this arresting thought: “Imagine a remake of ‘The Odd Couple’ in which Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau happen to rule the world...
...We should add that we are sorry for ourselves, too...
...As the postmodernists would say, what a concept...
...A tiny crew—a handful of reporters and one photographer at the start—cranked out the paper every weekday...
...To be sure, rock music has so overwhelmed the popular culture that it is often forgotten that the airwaves in those days were as likely to feature “Scotch and Soda,” “Tom Dooley,” “Worried Man,” or “MTA” as, say, “Teen Angel” or Chubby Checker and “The Twist...
...For we forgot to mention that, during the 1982-83 TV season, there was broadcast yet another Simon knockoff called The New Odd Couple, featuring an all-black cast...
...The paper marked the 150th anniversary of the decision to create Central Park with an editorial correcting the original New York Sun’s opposition to the plan...
...And then, just four pages later, Roy Blount Jr...
...Hindley that “The University will not tolerate inappropriate, racial and discriminatory conduct by members of its faculty...
...That’s the one where a toga-clad Bluto Blutarsky (John Belushi) comes upon a long-haired folkie strumming and warbling an impossibly insipid ballad (I gave my love a cherry that had no stone / I gave my love a chicken that had no bone) and smashes his guitar against the frat house wall...
...We are sorry also for our friends who worked as reporters, critics, columnists, and editors at the upstart paper over the last seven years and found it a congenial outlet for their labors...
...We are sorry first of all for the paper’s many devoted readers in New York, who will now have to make it through the day without a beloved publication...
...Hindley of using prejudicial language...
...It was the first complaint against him in 48 years...
...Granted, this song may lack the visceral appeal of Kurt Cobain’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” or the gentle lyricism of Eminem’s “Just Don’t Give a F—,” but it certainly sounds like something that could happen in Boston...
...It was edited by Peter Gordon and lauded in these pages three years ago by Matt Gaffney as the “best crossword puzzle in the country...
...The Sitcom Review In a disturbing new milestone in the continuing decline and fall of American intellectual rigor, THE SCRAPBOOK notes with dismay—and some amusement, truth to tell—that last week’s edition of the venerable New York Times Book Review contained not one, but two, learned allusions to The Odd Couple, the 1965 Neil Simon laughfest that was turned into a movie in 1968 and a TV situation comedy that ran during 1970-75...
...Threatened with “termination,” Mr...
...An administration monitor was assigned to his class...
...Then again, maybe the joke’s on THE SCRAPBOOK...
...Like its namesake, a venerable New York institution that closed in 1950, the 21st-century incarnation of the Sun described itself aptly as a newspaper that “stood for constitutional government, equality under the law, free enterprise, and the American idea...
...Besides its many other good works, the Sun was home to a wonderful crossword puzzle to which THE SCRAPBOOK grew quite attached...
...An anonymous student complained to the administration accusing Mr...
...Professor Donald Hindley, on the faculty for 48 years, teaches a course on Latin American politics...
...We would say that this leaves a gaping 15-minute hole in our day, but that might be construed as braggadocio...
...But we confess to some surprise—and yes, a little disappointment— that the penchant for sitcom metaphors and Trivial Pursuit clues had spread to the tonier precincts of the Book Review...
Vol. 14 • October 2008 • No. 5
