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More than half of the working population are failing to save enough money to provide a decent enough income when they give up work.
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Pension savings have hit a record low, according to Scottish Widow's eighth annual Pensions Report, with one in five people putting nothing aside for retirement. Two fifths of over-30s would also like to retire by the time they reach 60, even though the State Pension age is rising to 66 by 2020 for both men and women.
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Clarence Thomas: Affirmative Action's biggest beneficiary and biggest hypocrite
ABOVE PHOTO: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks at College of the Holy Cross after receiving an honorary degree from the college, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, in Worcester, Mass.
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By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to hand down yet another landmark decision on an affirmative action case. The case is the lawsuit by white student Abigail Noel Fisher against the University of Texas at Austin in which she claims that race was a primary reason she was rejected for admission. The justices will rule in the coming days on the use of race in college admissions.
Many legal experts and court watchers bet that the court will once and for all scrap the last vestiges of race as a factor in school admissions and by extension in employment. There is no bet, though, on how one judge will vote. That judge is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. His certain vote to uphold Fisher's case and dump race into the dustbin of legal and social history is so sure it can almost be mailed in. Thomas loudly told the world what he thought of affirmative action six years ago in his memoir, My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir by Clarence Thomas. Here are his words.
Affirmative action (though it wasn't yet called that) had become a fact of life at American college and universities, and before long I realized that those blacks who benefited from it were being judged by a double standard.The problem with my "adverse impact" analysis, of course, was that it was of no help to those black students who had already finished law school and now found themselves unable to pass the bar exam.
The problems faced by blacks in America would take quite some time to solve, and the responsibility for solving them would fall largely on black people themselves.
Most of the middle-class blacks with who I discussed these policies argued that all blacks were equally disadvantaged by virtue of their race alone. I thought that was nonsense.
When Thomas casts his inevitable vote to expunge affirmative action, the one question that will and should be eternally asked of him is how and why someone who has been the biggest beneficiary of affirmative action could be the biggest hypocrite in opposing it. First, there's the reminder of how much he's benefited.
Despite his mediocre political credentials and undistinguished academic record, Thomas rose from junior Senate aide to Supreme Court justice in less than a decade. Here's the parade of plum positions that he got: assistant secretary of Education for civil rights, chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), an appointment to the federal judiciary, and of course, Supreme Court judge. His quick rise up the political and legal ladder was all preceded by his race based admission to Yale Law School.
In his memoir, Thomas protests that he never actively sought these spots and pretends that he didn't want them because of his deep fear that he would be permanently tarred as an affirmative action hire. But no one twisted Thomas's arm or put a knife to his throat and demanded that he accept any of these positions including admission to Yale Law School. He had a mouth and he could have opened it and said no every time he was offered a professional leg up. He didn't. If Thomas had just taken the plums served up to him, and quietly melted into the woodwork with his titles, it would have been harmless enough. But he had a bigger agenda in mind, and that was to be an aggressive and relentless foe of the very affirmative action measures that he milked.
The Supreme Court post gave him the ideal power position to advance his agenda and do real damage. The pounding he took during his High Court confirmation fight in 1991 from civil rights, civil liberties and women's groups, and the narrow Senate vote to confirm him stung deeply. Thomas didn't forget or forgive. In fact, when asked how long he'd stay on the court, he reportedly said that he'd stay there for the next 43 years of his life. He was 43 at the time. In a more revealing aside, he supposedly quipped to friends that it would take him that long to get even.
Whether this was hyperbole or an apocryphal tale, it didn't take him 43 years to wreak his revenge. He has been a one man wrecking crew on the court to expunge race from law and public policy decisions. However, this is not simply one man's personal bitterness over his alleged mistreatment by liberals and civil rights leaders. In well-prepped and orchestrated talks to ultra conservative groups, Thomas has pretty much made it clear that he's on a mission to make sure law and public policy in America mirror his take on race. The capper was his swipe at President Barack Obama in of all things implying that he was an affirmative action President.
This is heady stuff for the son of a sharecropper who has been the biggest beneficiary of affirmative action. And, then makes it his sworn life's mission to be the biggest enemy of, or more accurately, its biggest hypocrite.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. His new ebook is America on Trial: The Slaying of Trayvon Martin (Amazon). He is an associate editor of New America Media. He is a weekly co-host of the Al Sharpton Show on American Urban Radio Network. He is the host of the weekly Hutchinson Report on KTYM 1460 AM Radio Los Angeles and KPFK-Radio and the Pacifica Network.
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I had an extensive conversation last week with a prominent Republican political operative about next year's congressional elections. This operative is one of the godfathers of Republican politics and has played at the highest level for more than 30 years.
Matt Barnes recently typed the racial epithet on his Twitter account. "The word I used is a word that's used on the court, is used in the locker room, is used by most of my friends and family," Barnes explained, adding that "It's like saying 'Bro.' That's just how we address people now."
There's been as much myth as fact regarding John F. Kennedy's civil rights legacy in the more than 50 years before, during and especially after his assassination on November 22, 1963. In the days before he delivered his now famed presidential inaugural address on Friday, January 20, 1961...
The strike of football players at legendary Grambling State University received attention across the world. GSU President Frank Pogue praised the players for providing the "creative tension" needed to bring attention to the plight of Grambling and historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in general.
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Special to The HeraldTree Day will be held next week in Yazoo City. The annual event will be held Feb. 7 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the National Guard Armory. Hardwood and pine seedlings will be available for free including Cherrybark Oak, Bald Cypress, Green Ash, Red Maple, Sawtooth Oak, Shumard Oak and Swamp Chestnut Oak. Sawtooth Oak bundles will also be available for $7, with 15 per bundle. Flowering trees available while supplies last include White Flowering Dogwood and Sweet Bay Magnolia for $5 each, Bradford Pear for $8 and Red Crape Myrtle for $3. For more information, call 746-8358, ext. 107.
Miss Mary Roark and Dr. David ShippMr. and Mrs. Steve Roark of Yazoo City announces the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Mary Morgan Roark, to Dr. David Patrick Shipp, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Shipp of Benton. The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Geddie Jr. of Tupelo and Mrs. Bettye Roark and the late Ubon Roark of Yazoo City. Miss Roark graduated from Manchester Academy with honors in 2006. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Communication Science and Disorders in 2010 and a Masters in Speech-Language Pathology in 2012 from the University of Mississippi. She graduated Magna Cum Laude and was on the Chancellor's Honor Roll. She was also a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Lambda Sigma and Gamma Beta Phi. She was a member and social chair of Delta Delta Delta Sorority. She is also a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She is a speech-language pathologist at Pearl Lower Elementary School. The prospective bridegroom is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Middleton and the late Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hugh Shipp Jr., all of Benton. He was a graduate of Benton Academy in 2004, Mississippi College in 2008 and the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 2012.He earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology at Mississippi College in 2008.He graduated Cum Laude and was also on the President's and Dean's List. He was a member of the Mortar Board. He also was a member, secretary and treasurer of the Civitan Men's Club. While at dental school at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 2012, he was on the Dean's List. He also served as a Dental School Student Body Secretary/Treasurer and Vice President. He was a representative of the American Student Dental Association and the Mississippi Dental Association. He earned the American Academy of Endodontics and Periodontology awards. He is currently completing his residency at the University of Mississippi Dental School. The couple will be married on March 9, 2013 at 4:30 p.m. in Emmaus Chapel in Satartia. Rev. David Bryant, pastor of First Baptist Church, and Rev. Barrett Bowden, pastor of Island Community Church in Memphis and brother-in-law of the bride. A reception will follow at Emmaus Retreat Center.
RattliffeCourtney Rattliffe Jr., son of Courtney Rattliffe Sr. and Sharita Davis, celebrated his sixth birthday on Jan. 26. He celebrated his birthday with a cowboy and cowgirl theme party at Elim's Studio on Main Street. Grandparents are Richard and Vickey Rattliffe, Cynthia Davis and Ceon Rucker. Great grandparents are Walter and Glinda Williams and Emma Rucker.
Yazoo City High School Class of 1992 recently held it reunion. Class members include Class Reunion President Veronica White- Hudson, Class Reunion Vice President Gregory Burns, Treasurers Circuit Clerk Robert Coleman and Charlie Jenkins, Secretaries Nikia Felton, Lacolia Cannon, Dana Vaughan-Cousin, Angela Hayes-Kirkland, Spiritual Advisors Pastor Jamie Wright, Minister Tamara Dodd and Larry Ingram, Sergeant of Arms Sergeant Anterrio Gainwell, Captain Marvin Jones, Edward Trotter, Orlando Wright, Ronricko Almore, Sergeant Terry Harris, Tommy James, Chief Timothy Hardin, Zerrio Winters, Alton Taylor, Kelvin Johnson, Richard Griffin and Richard Bass, Class Consultants Parrish Posey Sr, Eva Owens and Pamela Williams, Class Advocates Cathy Dycus and Terry Mitchell-Fox, Photographer Reginald Hart. The class celebrated its 20th class reunion with a three day event during the Labor Day weekend of 2012 in Yazoo.
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Wyoming 56, Air Force 23: Brett Smith accounted for a school-record 511 yards of offense and five touchdowns to lead the visiting Cowboys in the Mountain West Conference game.Smith completed 35-of-41 passes for 373 yards and four touchdowns and ran for another 138 yards and a score. Dominic Rufran finished with eight receptions for 117 yards and two touchdowns for Wyoming (3-1, 1-0 MWC), which has scored 30 or more points in four consecutive games for the first time in school history. Jaleel Awini completed 11-of-18 passes for 89 yards for Air Force (1-3, 0-3). Awini also rushed for 68 yards and a touchdown and Jon Lee contributed a team-high 82 rushing yards for the Falcons.Awini's 33-yard touchdown run gave Air Force a 7-0 lead on the opening possession of the game, but Smith and Rufran quickly tied the score on a 7-yard touchdown connection that was Smith's school-record 57th career touchdown pass. The Falcons retook the lead on Will Connant's 33-yard field goal with 8:50 left in the first quarter.Wyoming responded by outscoring the Falcons 35-7 over the remainder of the first half. Smith threw touchdown passes of 61, 4 and 10 yards, ran for a 6-yard score and Shaun Wick produced the first of his two touchdowns on a 6-yard run to give the Cowboys a 42-17 halftime lead.


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Did you watch Fury last night pal?
He's a pudding IMO and will get seriously found against the Doctor.
Actually reckon he'd get found out by Price.
HOWIE8 said:Fury was embarrassing for me, was like watching a mixture of Norman Wisdom, Tommy Cooper and a 50yr old George Forman competing in Strictly come dancing. The showboating was hilarious, cant wait for him to do it n get knocked cold out.
I agree about Eu junior however my only worry about him is he has all the shots but lacks that bit of power that would really make him a good n. Its as if his punches dont go the whole way, hard but not hard enough, he's hitting 1 bloke behind instead of 2 or 3........
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Winston Wolfe said:Yes mate but he also took the fight on 3 weeks notice....
Chisora went 12 with a Klitschko as well and he's another wooden one.
Fury went 12 with Chisora who got blasted by Haye.....
All that adds up to for me is Fury getting ko'd....He's been wobbled a brave few times by bums as far as I'm concerned.
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A leading staff writer at the New Yorker magazine for over half a century, Mitchell became well known for his stories and sketches about a variety of eccentric and bizarre people he met while exploring New York City. Uninterested in the city's elite and famous and their activities, Mitchell preferred to write about the people and places of Harlem, Greenwich Village, the Bowery, and New York harbor. The subjects of his profiles are mainly oddballs and misfits, many of them homeless, who exist on the fringes of mainstream society—gypsies, drunks, bums, street preachers, strippers, panhandlers, carnies, clammers, oystermen. At the height of his creativity, from the late 1930s to the mid-1960s, Mitchell published five collections of his writings, all of which were enthusiastically received by critics and the public. Many critics labeled Mitchell the best reporter in the country in his chosen field, remarking upon his exceptional skills as an interviewer, photographic representation of his characters and their speech, deadpan humor, and graceful, unadorned prose style. These features of Mitchell's writing, combined with his respect and compassion for his subjects and his exploration of the themes of mortality, change, and the past, have led many commentators to credit Mitchell with transforming the craft of reporting into an art.
Biographical Information
Mitchell was raised on his family's cotton and tobacco farm in Fairmont, North Carolina. He enrolled at the University of North Carolina in 1925, leaving four years later without a degree to pursue a career as a journalist in New York City, with the ultimate aim of becoming a political correspondent. His first job was as a police reporter for the New York World. Initially assigned to the Brooklyn precinct, he was quickly transferred first to a district on the west side of Manhattan and then to Harlem. Although Mitchell stayed at the World for just a few months, his job there had an important influence on his career. It was while working the night shift in Harlem that Mitchell discovered his niche as a writer. He disliked writing crime stories, but he found life in Harlem fascinating; even when he was off duty, he would walk the streets, talking with the many unusual people he encountered. After leaving the World, Mitchell worked briefly for the New York Herald Tribune, where he began to write about the people he had met in Harlem. Later, as a feature interviewer for the New York World-Telegram from 1931 to 1938, he specialized in writing about New York City's eccentric and obscure. Most of the forty articles included in Mitchell's first book, My Ears Are Bent (1938), were reprinted from the Herald Tribune and World-Telegram, but the collection also contains some pieces that first appeared in the New Yorker, where Mitchell worked from 1938 until shortly before his death from cancer on May 24, 1996.
Major Works
As its title indicates, My Ears Are Bent is comprised of articles about people who talked to Mitchell at length about their lives. In one portion of the book, Mitchell writes, "I have been tortured by some of the fanciest ear-benders in the world … and I have long since lost the ability to detect insanity." Among the people profiled in My Ears Are Bent are members of the United Fan, Bubble, and Specialty Dancers of America; a buxom blond Jewish woman who runs a dime movie theater in the Bowery and looks after the neighborhood drunks; an accomplished pickpocket; a man who sells racing cockroaches to the wealthy; and a lady boxer who claims to be a countess. Mitchell's subject matter and technique changed very little over the course of his career. Although he became increasingly interested in the activities on New York's waterfront and the old men who spent their time there, he continued to portray mainly loners, down-and-outers, and freaks. Few of Mitchell's characters are happy; some have had bad luck, others have succumbed to temptation, and many are old-timers whose lifestyles are threatened by progress and technology. Yet despite adversity, they fight to survive, aided in their struggle by their appreciation of life's absurdities and their enjoyment of simple pleasures, especially hearty eating and drinking, one of Mitchell's own frequent pastimes. Mitchell's approach to his work is objective and factual. He records detail upon detail about his subjects in simple, straight-forward prose, and he allows his characters to speak for themselves, never passing judgment. He is equally precise when describing his favorite New York City landmarks. One of these was New York's oldest bar, McSorley's Old Ale House, which supplied Mitchell with the title for his second book, McSorley's Wonderful Saloon (1943). A collection of twenty stories and sketches, McSorley's, like all of Mitchell's later books, consists entirely of material that first appeared in the New Yorker. In the first piece in McSorley's, "The Old House at Home," Mitchell describes the atmosphere and clientele of the bar, relishing the fact that neither have changed much since the establishment's founding in 1854. Located on East Seventh Street near the edge of the Bowery, McSorley's is a men-only, working-class saloon. Cobwebs hang from the ceiling, gas lamps supply the only lighting, and there is no cash register—patrons drop coins in soup bowls to pay for their mugs of beer. "The Old House at Home" contrasts sharply with another sketch in McSorley's, "Obituary of a Gin Mill," in which Mitchell relates how Dick's Bar and Grill, a rowdy, low-class saloon, loses its charm and character when the owner moves it to a new location and equips it with chrome bar stools, a neon sign, and a mahogany bar. Other pieces in McSorley's are devoted to an array of New York personalities, including Cockeye Johnny Nikanov, a self-proclaimed leader of thirty-eight gypsy families with a five-quart-a-week gin habit; Jane Burnell, a bearded lady who travels with the freak shows; and Commodore Dutch, who subsists on the proceeds from an annual ball he gives for his own benefit. Mitchell's third book, Old Mr. Flood (1948), which he described as "stories of fish-eating, whiskey, death and rebirth," is unique among his writings because it deals with a fictional character. Hugh G. Flood, a ninety-three-year-old widower who believes he can live to be 115 by maintaining a strict diet of fresh fish untainted by modern chemicals, is a composite of several old men Mitchell met at the Fulton Fish Market. Mr. Flood and his aged friends are preoccupied with thoughts of death and the past, which to them was infinitely better that the present because of its simplicity, yet they pursue life with gusto, taking comfort in telling tall tales and overindulging in food and liquor. The theme of the past is also an important element in Mitchell's fourth book, The Bottom of the Harbor (1960). The six articles collected in The Bottom of the Harbor are entirely concerned with the waters around New York and the people who live and work nearby. Most of the people in these articles are old men, whose memories provide the reader with a history of New York as a seaport and its old fishing families. In one of the pieces, Mitchell describes what is literally at the bottom of the harbor; in another, he recounts a visit with one of the oldest surviving members of a nineteenth-century black village on Staten Island. The most frequently discussed piece in the collection, "Up in the Old Hotel," finds Mitchell at a waterfront fish restaurant, Sloppy Louie's, which is just across the street from the Fulton Fish Market. As Mitchell eats, the proprietor, Louie Morino, talks to him, and the two eventually decide to explore the four abandoned floors above the restaurant, the former site of the Fulton Ferry Hotel. Mitchell's next book, Joe Gould's Secret (1965), chronicles the life of a derelict bohemian eccentric who was well known in Greenwich Village from the 1920s to the 1940s. Gould, a member of the Harvard graduating class of 1911, crashed parties, sponged drinks at bars by imitating the cries of sea gulls, and claimed to be writing a book called An Oral History of Our Time that was eleven times longer than the Bible. Mitchell first profiled Gould in a 1942 New Yorker piece entitled "Professor Sea Gull," which was the outcome of several lengthy interviews during which Gould cadged large quantities of gin and beer. After the appearance of this article, Gould hounded Mitchell, going so far as to use Mitchell's office as his mailing address. Exasperated by Gould's endless gabbing about himself and his legendary book, only a few paragraphs of which Gould had allowed anyone to see, Mitchell made repeated attempts to locate the manuscript of Gould's oral history. When Mitchell confronted Gould with his suspicion that the book did not really exist, Gould dropped out of his life and eventually ended up in a psychiatric hospital. Mitchell exposed Gould as a fraud in two New Yorker articles that ran in 1964, which, along with the 1942 profile, make up the contents of Joe Gould's Secret. Mitchell published no new material after the appearance of Joe Gould's Secret, although he continued to go to work at the New Yorker until shortly before his death. During these years, Mitchell closely guarded his privacy, avoiding interviews and refusing to allow his books to be reissued. However, he finally agreed to be anthologized, and in 1992 Pantheon Books brought out Up in the Old Hotel, a compendium of Mitchell's New Yorker writings including McSorley's, Old Mr. Flood, The Bottom of the Harbor, Joe Gould's Secret, and seven additional pieces. Modern Library editions of The Bottom of the Harbor (1994) and Joe Gould's Secret (1996) have since followed.
Critical Reception
By the time Up in the Old Hotel appeared, Mitchell's books had long been out of print. Welcomed by both die-hard New Yorker fans and readers unacquainted with Mitchell's writings, Up in the Old Hotel made it to the New York Times best-seller list. It was also widely reviewed in newspapers and magazines, where Mitchell was once again praised for his ear for dialogue and eye for detail, genuine interest in the lives of his subjects, and rhythmic, simple prose. Many commentators credited him with pioneering a new type of "literary journalism" that served as a model for later generations of nonfiction writers. Most critics of Up in the Old Hotel questioned why Mitchell had not published anything new for so many years. Some speculated that he had developed writer's block as a result of being hoodwinked by Gould. Others concluded that he had been deprived of his subject matter, noting that Mitchell's innocent world of lovable drunks and bums no longer existed. Mitchell offered his own explanation in a 1992 interview: "The city changed on me…. I can't seem to get anything finished anymore. The hideous state the world is in just defeats the kind of writing I used to do." Like the subjects of many of his profiles, Mitchell felt threatened by change and was saddened by the passage of time and the demise of long-standing traditions. While critics have remarked that the tone of Mitchell's writings became increasingly nostalgic, they also emphasize that Mitchell's melancholy is tempered by his earthy sense of humor and obvious delight in making new discoveries about New York. His writings are a testament to his insatiable interest in the city. As Noel Perrin observed, "Mitchell described the life and even the very soul of New York as perhaps no one else ever has."
Principal Works
My Ears Are Bent (nonfiction) 1938
McSorley's Wonderful Saloon (nonfiction) 1943
Old Mr. Flood (fiction) 1948
The Bottom of the Harbor (nonfiction) 1960
Joe Gould's Secret (nonfiction) 1965
Up in the Old Hotel (nonfiction and fiction) 1992
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SOURCE: "Some Talk That Bent a Reporter's Ears," in The New York Times Book Review, January 23, 1938, p. 5.
[In the following review of My Ears Are Bent, Van Gelder describes the types of people Mitchell most liked to interview.]
Mr. Mitchell is a sort of Stephen Crane of this generation's newspaper city rooms, a somber athlete with an exceptional writing talent who finds Harlem and the lower East Side the most interesting localities in town. The book's title [My Ears Are Bent] is his comment on the listening he has been obliged by his trade of daily newspaper interviewer to go through. He has become a connoisseur of talk and holds that the best talk is artless, made up of the wandering comments of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves. He particularly fancies the intimate confidences of those who might roughly be classified as "screwballs." For instance, there was a Mr. Samuel J. Burger who telephoned Mr. Mitchell's office to say that he was selling racing cockroaches to society people at 75 cents a pair. Mr. Mitchell went to interview him and found him in a Broadway delicatessen buying ham and cheese sandwiches for a couple of strip-tease women. Mr. Burger talked for a while about his cockroaches, and then mentioned a side line, the renting of monkeys. "I rent a lot of monkeys," he said. "People get lonesome and telephone me to send them a monkeyto keep them company. After all,...
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SOURCE: "About People," in The New Republic, Vol. LXXXXIV, No. 1213, March 2, 1938, pp. 108-09.
[In the following essay, Ferguson comments on Mitchell's creative approach to feature writing.]
There are hundreds of fancy feature writers scattered through the newspaper business, but few of them ever show up as the creative people they hope to be (sufficient unto the day is the newsprint thereof). Joseph Mitchell is an exception, that writer's mirage of a man who can cover an angle of the news neither inspiring in itself nor congenital to him, get the stuff in for the home edition, and still be able to collect it for a second or third reading.
Mitchell covers several dozen news angles in the life of metropolitan New York, from freak to human interest, from behind the lines on headline sensations to strippers, reefer smokers, the life of a bar and grill. In doing it he has a perfect talent for hitting off the human equation. He is neither supercilious nor taken in; not a gawk, not a sob-sister; not Lucius Beebe nor a press agent, nor Winchell. He's got to make a story each time, but he makes it from the approach of a good novelist. His characters are realized in terms of how the world sees them and how they see the world revolving around themselves.
What with humor, kindness, straight candor, dramatic talent and the balance of a point of view being so infrequent in the...
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SOURCE: "The Grammar of Facts," in The New Republic, Vol. 109, No. 4, July 26, 1943, pp. 113-14.
[In the following review of McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Cowley comments on Mitchell's style, which he considers factual and repertorial.]
In his own somewhat narrow field, which is that of depicting curious characters, Joseph Mitchell is the best reporter in the country. Some of his favorite subjects are Bowery angels, barflies, small-time Broadway sports, coffee-pot poets and Calypso singers. He writes about them with more sympathy and factual precision than you will find in the recent biographies of any famous authors or statesmen. In his new book, McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, there is not a trace of condescension. He says in an author's note, after explaining that these portraits were first written for The New Yorker, "The people in a number of the stories are of the kind that many writers have recently got into the habit of referring to as 'the little people.' I regard this phrase as patronizing and repulsive. There are no little people in this book. They are as big as you are, whoever you are."
They are in fact as big as life, because they are shown in perspective against their proper backgrounds. Mitchell's collection of portraits is the exact opposite of the books that choose an important subject, but are hastily written and have nothing much to say. These books,...
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SOURCE: "Raw Onions and No Ladies," in Saturday Review of Literature, Vol. XXVI, No. 31, July 31, 1943, p. 20.
[In the following review of McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Lynch praises Mitchell for his powers of observation and description, and especially for his compassion for his subjects.]
A good saloon can be a lovely thing. The place where a man can join his fellows in free and easy camaraderie over a mug of ale or a pony of whiskey is an institution that deserves the literary and artistic recognition that so frequently it gets. New York has its share of such places, and they are not the chromium-plated cocktail bars of the post-Prohibition drinking age. Joseph Mitchell, the author of My Ears Are Bent, has a nice feeling for the friendly warmth of a Third Avenue saloon, and has selected as the title forhis new book of stories and sketches [McSorley's Wonderful Saloon] the name of one that lies just off the Avenue on Seventh Street, the oldest alehouse in New York, McSorley's. By now most literate Americans should be familiar with this historic shrine, for it has had frequent reference in recent American letters; and paintings of it hang on the walls of some of our best museums. Its apotheosis came with the inclusion in Thomas Craven's A Treasury of Art Masterpieces, of John Sloan's McSorley's Bar. Mitchell's account, which first appeared in The New Yorker, is...
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SOURCE: "Historian of Queer—Not 'Little'—People," in New York Tribune Weekly Book Review, Vol. 19, No. 49, August 1, 1943, p. 5.
[In the following review of McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Walker ranks Mitchell as the best writer in his field, which Walker labels "low-life biography."]
Joseph Mitchell is pretty generally accepted as the ablest practitioner of low-life biography, a field in which many talented writers have operated over the last few years. It has been said that he "must be about the best interviewer in the world," which may be true, although "interviewer" is not precisely the word. He is psychographer, historian and an extraordinarily acute observer of what some folk would call trivial. Whatever he is, there is little doubt that at the moment he is the Old Master of his particular type of stuff, which in his hands comes very near to being literature of a high order.
The sketches in this volume [McSorley's Wonderful Saloon] were printed originally in The New Yorker although some of them have been revised. For the most part they are portraits of persons who are generally regarded as of no importance; some, in fact, are downright vile. Some are amiable freaks. Some, in their way, achieve a sort of cockeyed heroic stature. In his note explaining and defending his choice of such characters the author says:
The people...
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SOURCE: "Bowery Botanist," in Time, Vol. XLII, No. 5, August 2, 1943, pp. 98, 100.
[In the following review of McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, the critic describes the atmosphere of the bar and supplies thumbnail sketches of three of the people profiled in the book.]
Joseph Mitchell is as gloomy as only a humorist can be. For years he has been studying, with the prying patience of a botanist, the queer human weeds he finds growing in the dingier interstices of Manhattan's bum-littered Bowery. But Mitchell is saddened when readers of The New Yorker, Esquire and other magazines chuckle at the results of his researches, these 20 profiles and stories, now collected for the first time in book form [in McSorley's Wonderful Saloon]. For Humorist Mitchell professes to find nothing comic in his wacky human jujubes. He says he does not caricature them. Instead, he describes them with a loving exactness which gives them an odd dignity. Such humor as they have, he implies, is incidental. It results from the lighting of an infallible eye on a fallible object.
Focus and locus of most of Author Mitchell's studies is the environs of McSorley's Old Ale House, which for 88 years has resisted change just off Cooper Square, where Manhattan's skidroad—the Bowery—ends. McSorley's has also provided a haven for Manhattan's literary transients—writers, newshawks, painters, poets...
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SOURCE: "Mitchell's Wonderful McSorley," in The Nation, Vol. 157, No. 7, August 14, 1943, p. 190.
[In the following essay, Mellquist likens the sketches and stories in McSorley's Wonderful Saloon to genre paintings.]
Genre paintings resemble feature stories. They take a mellow, or raffish, or appetizing area of life and memorialize it by the affection they have for their subject. Too often, unfortunately, they remain ephemeral, registering but a moment of warmth. But John Sloan's painting of McSorley's, an old bar on East Seventh Street, in New York, is still remembered. And other painters, though somewhat less impressively, have also inscribed their affection for the place. Now Joseph Mitchell, ex-newspaperman who contributes special features to the New Yorker, has assembled twenty of these pieces and put them in a book with the title of McSorley's Wonderful Saloon.
He begins with McSorley's, recounting its sawdust career under four changes of management in the last eighty-nine years. Then he ambles over to the Bowery, where he describes Mazie, the brassy blonde who presides at the ticket window of the "bums'" favorite movie palace. He inspects gypsies and museum-keepers; glorifies Joe Gould, the Greenwich Village eccentric who has translated several of Longfellow's poems into Seagull; chats with Madame Olga, the Bearded Lady, and laments the lapse into...
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SOURCE: "Fish Every Day," in New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review, Vol. 25, No. 10, October 24, 1948, p. 20.
[In the following essay, Conrad judges Old Mr. Flood to be an accurate representation of a rapidly disappearing phase of Manhattan life.]
As a reporter of the New York scene whose integrity equals his human insight and his admirable command of a disciplined prose that is never loosely journalistic or falsely literary, Joseph Mitchell informs his readers that this portrait of Mr. Flood [in Old Mr. Flood] is not one man but the composite of several venerable Fulton Fish. Market habitues. His purpose has been to make the stories "truthful rather than factual." Having become acquainted with Mr. Flood when he first appeared in the pages of The New Yorker we are reluctant to accept a multiple image. In his person and his philosophies, in his speech and in every detail of his deportment, old Mr. Flood remains intact and indivisible.
Widowed Mr. Flood, ninety-three-year-old retired contractor domiciled in a drowsy waterfront hotel, has his sights set on seeing his 115th birthday, and he is reasonably optimistic about it: "he has his own teeth, he hears all right, he doesn't wear glasses, his mind seldom wanders, and his appetite is so good that immediately after lunch he begins speculating about what he willhave for dinner." He knows definitely that dinner will...
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SOURCE: "Fish Fan," in Saturday Review of Literature, Vol. XXXI, No. 47, November 20, 1948, p. 18.
[In the following review of Old Mr. Flood, Sutton commends Mitchell for faithfully capturing the atmosphere of the Fulton Fish Market.]
Never let it be said that Mr. Joseph Mitchell is a social climber, that he hobnobs with the aristocracy, rubs elbows with mink. Firsthe spent ten or more nights in a barroom and came up with a fine book called McSorley's Wonderful Saloon. I was in McSorley's Old Ale House on East Seventh Street once and, believe me, I'm glad I got back uptown with my whole hide.
And just where do you think Mr. Mitchell has been spending his time lately? Down, if you please, at the Fulton Fish Market, New York's original Aroma Corner. Somewhere amid the shad and the haddock, Mr. Mitchell has turned up a character name of Hugh G. Flood, a retired housewrecker of ninety-three years and some means. Mr. Flood's object in life is to live to be 115, and, as you can see, he has a few to go. He plans to make the grade by maintaining a strict diet of fish—sea urchins, blowfish tails, winkles, ink squids, and bardnoor skates. Whereas you or I might knock off a stack of wheat cakes, Mr. Flood's breakfasts are apt to consist of fried cod tongues, cheeks, and sounds. Sounds, Mr. Mitchell informs us, are gelatinous air bladders along the cod's backbone. I wish he hadn't....
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SOURCE: "The City's Dockside," in The New York Times Book Review, April 24, 1960, pp. 3, 36.
[In the following essay, Atkinson praises The Bottom of the Harbor as both literature and as a travel guide.]
Since Joseph Mitchell is an unselfconscious writer, readers of The Bottom of the Harbor are never distracted from the subject matter of his book. He is discussing and describing the natural phenomena of the waters around New York—fish, clams, oysters and lobsters, and the natives who are equally indigenous.
Occasionally Mr. Mitchell, author of McSorley's Wonderful Saloon and other books, appears in his pages as the man talked to or the man who went somewhere to meet a riverman or waterman. His function is that of a guide. Under his guidance you learn a good deal about Louis Morino, temperamental proprietor of Sloppy Louie's restaurant at 92 South Street; George H. Hunter, 87, chairman of the board of trustees of the African Methodist Church in Sandy Ground, Staten Island; Andrew E. Zimmer, tireless Shellfish Protector who patrols the harbor in a sea skiff; Ellery Franklin Thompson, knowledgeable skipper of the dragger, Eleanor, out of Stonington, Conn.; Harry Lyons, 74, a shad fisherman who has lived all his life in Edgewater, N. J., and has never been diverted from his attendance on the Hudson River by the metropolis on the eastern bank.
There is...
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SOURCE: "All Around This Area with J. Mitchell," in New York Herald Tribune Book Review, Vol. 36, No. 40, May 8, 1960, p. 4.
[In the following review of The Bottom of the Harbor, Epstein considers the influence of Mitchell's prose style on his profiles of his subjects.]
Half a dozen stories which appeared in The New Yorker from 1944 to 1959 make up the latest volume [The Bottom of the Harbor] designed to give a longer lease of life than guaranteed by ephemeral magazine covers to some of its articles. Few of them have been worthier than Joseph Mitchell's of preservation.
The author of McSorley's Wonderful Saloon has poked around in out of the way corners in the city and its environs to dig up pursuits and the people who follow them that few New York inhabitants ever knew existed. In this collection Mr. Mitchell is interested in some traditional and still surviving activities in and about New York's rivers, harbor and Long Island Sound.
His first story tells about a waterfront fish restaurant, Sloppy Louie's, still flourishing in a mellow old brick building in Fulton Market. Mr. Mitchell is a meticulous reporter. He gives us the exact dimensions of the restaurant, the number, material and arrangement of the tables but he is mainly interested in the personality of the proprietor. Louis Moreno serves a larger variety of seafood than any...
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SOURCE: "Waterfront Metropolis," in The Christian Science Monitor, Vol. 52, No. 142, May 12, 1960, p. 86.
[In the following review of The Bottom of the Harbor, Kenney applauds Mitchell for giving readers a chance to experience the sights, sounds, smells, and noises of New York harbor.]
Much of New York is exposed to view by its mighty sky-piercing buildings, its snarled traffic on the broad avenues, the roar of subways; the shifting of great greyhounds of the sea in the busy harbor; and even fishing in Central Park and sun browsing on the steps of the public library on Fifth Avenue.
But Joseph Mitchell, in The Bottom of the Harbor, has exposed off-the-track drama in New York. A drama that comes only to those who live here, walk the streets in sun, rain, fog, and at night. He intimately acquaints you with a personality, an activity, a smell, a noise, or an experience by making you a part of it all.
There is much suspense in the chapter "Up in the Old Hotel." This takes you to the Fulton Fish Market district and you learn about a cheerful market restaurant named Sloppy Louie's. Here, too, you will find the essence of New York and much of the flavor of it in a big, inexpensive, invigorating breakfast—a kippered herring and scrambled eggs, or a shad-roe omelet, or split sea scallops and bacon.
It is Louis Morino, born in Recco, Italy, who...
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SOURCE: "Paragon of Reporters: Joseph Mitchell," in The Sewanee Review, Vol. XCI, No. 2, Spring, 1983, pp. 167-84.
[In the following essay, Perrin provides a detailed summary of Mitchell's career, attempting to show the development of his craft and the means by which he transformed reporting into an art.]
There are, at a generous estimate, about a dozen North Carolinians who belong to American literature. That's not meant as a slur. There are states, my own included, where you'd be hard pressed to find five. North Carolina has Thomas Wolfe, of course. And it has O. Henry and Charles Chesnutt—the first important black novelist this country ever produced—and Doris Betts and Reynolds Price. It also has Joseph Mitchell—in some ways the least known of the whole dozen, and in some ways the most remarkable.
What is remarkable about Mitchell, or one of the things, is that he has taken that form of writing which has the very lowest claim to being art, and made an art of it. Some would say a high art.
When you start ranking literary genres in order of prestige, poetry still comes out on top. The very act of writing a poem, even a bad one, sets one on the olympian or parnassian slope, however far down. At least in America novelists come next—Wolfe, for example, and Chesnutt, Betts, and Price. Then come dramatists, short-story writers, including O. Henry,...
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SOURCE: "Joe Mitchell's Secret," in The Atlantic, Vol. 270, No. 2, August, 1992, pp. 97-9.
[In the following review of Up in the Old Hotel, Blount suggests reasons for Mitchell's decision to stop publishing after 1965, focusing on his experiences with Joe Gould.]
If I could play around with time, I would make myself alive and literate on that week in 1940 when I could flip suspensefully through the latest New Yorker (whose table of contents in those days was minimal), come upon a piece titled "Lady Olga," savor its first sentence ("Jane Barnell occasionally considers herself an outcast and feels that there is something vaguely shameful about the way she makes a living"), scan its first paragraph, jump ahead a number of pages to the byline, and exclaim:
"Oh, glory. Joseph Mitchell has profiled a bearded lady."
I did have the pleasure, in 1964, of devouring fresh out of that magazine Mitchell's series of articles about Joe Gould, a bizarre Greenwich Village character whose literary pretensions and hand-to-mouth subsistence Mitchell had first chronicled, more briefly, in 1942. Gould had continued to pester Mitchell over the years, in person or as a kind of specter (Gould sometimes referred to himself as Professor Sea Gull, and did eerie sea gull imitations that no one who heard them ever forgot), until Gould's death in a mental hospital. The closing...
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SOURCE: "The Paragon of Reporters," in Newsweek, Vol. CXX, No. 6, August 10, 1992, pp. 53-4.
[In the following essay, Jones briefly summarizes Mitchell's career, discussing his style, the subjects of his profiles, and his association with the New Yorker.]
One recent balmy summer afternoon, Joseph Mitchell stood in the middle of New York's Fulton Fish Market and grinned like a schoolboy playing hooky. "As soon as I came down here in the '30s as a reporter, I felt at home," he said. Over a half century later, he is still prowling the market's cobbled streets. "It's so exciting, with the colors, the smells, the noise as the background to all that trading," he said. "Most markets now are abstract. It's stocks and bonds. But this is the real thing that those old Dutch painters painted. I think of it as the Dutchness of New York. I like that aspect of it, even the old Dutch names of the streets. If you come down here at 5 a. m. and walk around, you can't help leaving exhilarated."
Now 84, Mitchell has been writing about the people and places around New York that exhilarated him for more than 60 years, first as a newspaper reporter and, since 1938, as a staff writer for The New Yorker. But, as he says, "the city changed on me," and a lot of what he loved has gone. "There's an old country saying—from the cradle to the hearse, things are never so bad that they can't get worse—well,...
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SOURCE: "His Ears Are Bent on Hearing Talk of Town," in The Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition), Vol. CCXX, No. 33, August 14, 1992, p. A8.
[In the following essay, Trachtenberg briefly describes the contents of the four books included in Up in the Old Hotel.]
As media circles buzz over the naming of high-voltage Tina Brown to the top post at The New Yorker, Pantheon has released a collection of the best works of Joseph Mitchell, a New Yorker persona of a far more diffident stripe.
So shy was he that the author's photo for Mr. Mitchell's first book, My Ears Are Bent (1938), showed him seated on a couch, a newspaper covering his face. Eventually, he fairly disappeared altogether: He kept an office at The New Yorker but didn't publish another signed article these past 27 years.
Thanks to this new collection of his work, Mr. Mitchell, now 84 years old, is likely to attract another generation of fans. The anthology Up in the Old Hotel includes four previously published books, long out of print—McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr. Flood, The Bottom of the Harbor and Joe Gould's Secret—and it should be immensely appealing to anyone interested in bearded ladies, child prodigies, oystermen and Indian steelworkers.
Rather than scrutinize the big names of the day, Mr. Mitchell wrote mostly about oddballs,...
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SOURCE: A review of Up in the Old Hotel, in Los Angeles Times Book Review, August 16, 1992, pp. 1, 8.
[In the following essay, Schulian uses the publication of Up in the Old Hotel as an opportunity to express his long-standing appreciation for Mitchell's work.]
Getting hit on the head with a dead cow isn't necessarily a bad thing. Provided, of course, that you survive the experience, it can heighten your appreciation for the absurdities of life as well as for the people who revel in them. For the stalwart bearded lady and the saloon keeper who closes up because the joint's too crowded and the ticket taker who brags that nobody ever got fleas in her Bowery theater. For the homeless Harvard man who imitates sea gulls andthe Gypsies who live on a mixture of gin and Pepsi called "popskull," and the street preacher who says, "The gutter is my pulpit and the roaring traffic is my pipe organ." For all the raving eccentrics Joseph Mitchell knew and loved and wrote about in The New Yorker, which, when you think about it, seems no less amazing than having the late Bossy come crashing down on your noggin.
Considering what a bore the magazine can be on any given week, it would be easy to assume that Mitchell risked being sent packing for admitting that a cow laid him low when it was supposedly hung for butchering. Too weird, too wonderful. But he had the great good fortune to...
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SOURCE: "This Was New York. It Was," in The New York Times Book Review, Vol. XCVII, No. 33, August 16, 1992, p. 7.
[In the following review of Up in the Old Hotel, Klinkenborg emphasizes the historical value of Mitchell's writings.]
There were many great eaters at The New Yorker in the 1940's, but surely the magazine's greatest eaters of that decade were A. J. Liebling and Joseph Mitchell. Their tastes differed. Liebling loved French food, as it was served in France before and between the world wars. He could describe a meal as if it were a procession of wise old courtesans. Joseph Mitchell had—perhaps still has, for he is 82 years old and divides his time between New York and a home in North Carolina—simpler tastes in food. He inclines to the beefsteak, the oyster and the clam. To his dining he brings a melancholic tinge.
"One Sunday afternoon in August, 1937," he writes in a story called "A Mess of Clams," "I placed third in a clam-eating tournament at a Block Island clambake, eating 84 cherries…. I regard this as one of the few worthwhile achievements of my life." To readers of Up in the Old Hotel, a compendium of Mr. Mitchell's writing for The New Yorker between 1938 and 1965—stories, profiles and articles that have been out of print for years—this will seem like the most bilious kind of modesty. For among writers of nonfiction Mr. Mitchell has...
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SOURCE: "Heard on the Street," in The New Republic, Vol. 207, No. 15, October 5, 1992, pp. 43-6.
[In the following essay, Sante describes the distinguishing features of Mitchell's stories and sketches, commenting on his characters, themes, and prose style. Sante also compares Mitchell's career to that of A. J. Liebling, his closest colleague at the New Yorker, and discusses the author's relationship with Joe Gould.]
The title of this omnibus edition of Joseph Mitchell's books (four out of five of them) [Up in the Old Hotel] was an apt choice: it is both mysterious and deceptively cozy, and the 1952 piece from which it derives epitomizes a great deal about Mitchell's work. It opens with a sentence that is, again, ominous and deceptively reassuring: "Every now and then, seeking to rid my mind of thoughts of death and doom, I get up early and go down to Fulton Fish Market." Mitchell briefly evokes the sights, sounds, and smells of the place, then heads across the street for breakfast at Sloppy Louie's (still there, and still serving excellent fish, though rather gentrified nowadays). He spots the proprietor, Louis Morino, and listens to him talk.
Like all the people Mitchell listens to, Morino is voluble, plainspoken, sensuously articulate, so much so that you might suspect Mitchell's editorial hand, here as elsewhere, of turning raggedy ordinary speech into great prose—but...
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SOURCE: "Journeys with Joseph Mitchell," in The American Scholar, Winter, 1993, pp. 132-33, 136-38.
[In the following essay, Zinsser assesses the enduring worth of each of the four books collected in Up in the Old Hotel, basing his judgments on both Mitchell's technique and subject matter.]
...Every now and then, seeking to rid my thoughts of death and doom, I get up early and go down to Fulton Street Fish Market. I usually arrive around five-thirty, and take a walk through the two huge open-fronted market sheds, the Old Market and the New Market, whose fronts rest on South Street and whose backs rest on piles in the East River. At that time, a little while before the trading begins, the stands in the sheds are heaped high and spilling over with forty to sixty kinds of finfish and shellfish from the East Coast, the West Coast, the Gulf Coast and half a dozen foreign countries. The smoky riverbank dawn, the racket the fishmongers make, the seaweedy smell, and the sight of this plentifulness always give me a feeling of well-being, and sometimes they elate me. I wander among the stands for an hour or so. Then I go into a cheerful market restaurant named Sloppy Louie's and eat a big, inexpensive, invigorating breakfast—a kippered herring and scrambled eggs, or a shad-roe omelet, or split sea scallops and bacon, or some other breakfast specialty of the place.
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SOURCE: A review of Up in the Old Hotel, in The American Spectator, Vol. 26, No. 2, February, 1993, pp. 62-3.
[In the following review, Mysak welcomes the publication of Up in the Old Hotel and briefly describes the subjects of some of Mitchell's best-known stories.]
Joseph Mitchell, now 84, is the last of those great New Yorker writers of the magazine's heyday. Most of us got to know him through Brendan Gill's Here at The New Yorker, in which Gill profiled all the magazine's great stylists—White, Thurber, Benchley, Liebling, Gibbs, McNulty, Maloney, Edmund Wilson—and putMitchell at the top of the list. Up in the Old Hotel collects four Mitchell books: McSorley's Wonderful Saloon (1943), Old Mr. Flood (1948), The Bottom of the Harbor (1960), and Joe Gould's Secret (1965). For anyone who is not familiar with Mitchell—and his work has been out of circulation for so long that it is tough to see how many people could be—this collection is a feast, a staggering repast, a three-day bender.
As Mitchell told the New York Times, "I'm a ghost; everything's changed now." It is almost as if a hurricane roared through in the 1970s and blew out the picturesque, unthreatening city of Joseph Mitchell, replacing it with one that is almost pornographic. Yet Mitchell's tales can be appreciated even if the days of such gentle...
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SOURCE: "Joseph Mitchell, Chronicler of the Unsung and the Unconventional, Dies at 87," in The New York Times, May 25, 1996, p. 12.
[In the following obituary, Severo provides an overview of Mitchell's career.]
Joseph Mitchell, whose stories about ordinary people created extraordinary journalism in the pages of The New Yorker, died of cancer yesterday at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 87 and lived in Manhattan.
At the height of his creative powers, from the 1930's to the mid-60's, Mr. Mitchell tended to avoid the standard fare of journalists: interviews with moguls, tycoons, movie stars and captains of industry. Instead, he pursued the generals of nuisance: flops, drunks, con artists, panhandlers, gin-mill owners and their bellicose bartenders, at least one flea circus operator, a man who sold racing cockroaches, a bearded lady and a fast talker who claimed to have written nine million words of "An Oral History of Our Times" when, in fact, he had written no words at all.
Mr. Mitchell was also the poet of the waterfront, of the limelight of New York's greatness as a seaport, of the Fulton Fish Market, of the clammers on Long Island and the oystermen on Staten Island: people who caught, sold and ate seafood and talked about it incessantly. One Sunday in August 1937, he placed third in a clam-eating tournament at Block Island after...
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Further Reading
Epstein, Joseph. "Joe Gould's Masterpiece." The New Republic 153, No. 17 (23 October 1965): 26-7, 30.
Provides a brief sketch of Joe Gould's life and describes the circumstances surrounding the composition of Joe Gould's Secret.
―――――――. "Talk of the Town." The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4666 (4 September 1992): 6-8.
Discusses Mitchell's work in terms of the changing editors at the New Yorker, explains his failure to publish anything in the magazine for over twenty years, and compares his style to that of A. J. Liebling.
Ivry, Benjamin. "Joseph Mitchell's Secret." New York 20, No. 6 (9 February 1987): 20.
A brief account of Mitchell's life as the New Yorker's "elder statesman," focusing on his desire for privacy.
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Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©1997 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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We're really pleased to announced that supporting in Las Vegas and Santa Barbara on the 15th and 18th April respectively will be this man - the Tallest Man on Earth.
We've also got another US festival date for ya: heads'up Memphis. On the 30th April the band will head for Tom Lee Park in Downtown Memphis to play, overlooking the Mississippi River, as part of Beale Street Music Festival. Also on the line up are Lucinda Williams, John Mellencamp and many more.
Las Vegas & Santa Barbara support news + Beale Street Music Festival
Friday 4, March 2011
@djwllace: Pretty weird, but I'll more than likely be seeing you at both shows haha :)
On Mon, April 04, 2011 - 9:07:38 by nessalove925
All my 6 year old son wants for his birthday is to See Mumford & Sons in Concert!! Is it possible to get 1 day festival tickets for Bonnaroo?? Would be ecstatic to drive the 9 hours from Charleston, SC to make this happen for my little man!
On Wed, March 30, 2011 - 3:00:14 by mckanfam
Washington, D.C., my men, Washington, D.C.
On Tue, March 15, 2011 - 3:18:39 by smash25
On Fri, March 11, 2011 - 7:48:36 by djwllace
Swell! I accidently ended up with tickets to see you all on Monday in Santa Barbara (my home), Thursday in Oakland, and Friday in San Pedro. Joy! Do I get a medal for being the most dedicated, least obsessive fan? Oh, but then I am on your website making a comment… shoot.
On Wed, March 09, 2011 - 6:34:48
Well this is good, though it would be fantastic if you all would mosey on over to Toronto sometime (again)... please and thank you! :)
On Tue, March 08, 2011 - 12:58:44 by kmjames12
Please come to Poland! you're really great, your music is wonderful, I like 'Dust Bowl Dance' so much…you've many fans in Poland :) I've family in London so maybe I will see you there, I hope so. Greetings and good luck!
On Mon, March 07, 2011 - 2:36:19
We love you guys! You have tons of fans in Kentucky! My 2 year old is one of your biggest fans! Check out the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxMwIoHY81Q
On Mon, March 07, 2011 - 10:03:08 by mathrocks
Really excited that you are playing in Arkansas! I will be there at Wakarusa and Memphis in May. I may even head up to Bonnaroo to see you guys.
On Mon, March 07, 2011 - 3:48:40 by megan_leigh
Please come to North Carolina! Asheville is an awesome town (with a thriving arts scene) and I bet you guys would love the mountains!
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酒店内 Spa 有按摩/护理室和双人护理室。服务包括按摩、面部护理、身体磨砂和身体护理。该 SPA 提供桑拿浴。该 SPA 提供各种护理疗法,包括芳香疗法和水疗法。
"Horrible Stay"
No hot running water. Got the wrong sized bed. No working heater in the room. Internet did not work at all and I had to cancel my business meeting due to that.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
Had multiple problems: First, they charged me a $50 room upgrade and then a $20 pet fee on top of it to get a pet-friendly room. Second, the room reeked of sulphur. Just stank. Third, the room was cold when we arrived, with the thermostat turned all the way off and all the windows wide open, in November. Fourth, the walls were very thin, as this is […] an old converted/upgraded motor lodge. Last, the bed was very, very uncomfortable, and I woke with back pain. Good points: Nice hot tub, the room was clean and pretty to look at, and all of the facilities were reasonably well-maintained. 阅读更多信息Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"very happy"
peaceful and enjoyable, staff and management was very friendly, very nice room, close to things to do in the area,we will stay there again!!!!!!Hotels.com 真实住客点评
It was depressing and disappointing along with the so called beach. The hotel looked abandoned. Clean room; however I had to make a cup of coffee to rid the wierd smell. Owner very nice.....she really need help running thst place.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Disapointing discovery of the truth."
The hotel, as it is shown on your web site, simply does not exist. Located beside a heavy traffic road, with an ugly surrounding, it has nothing to do with what is it shown in the ads. The rooms are similar to the pictures, but there is no working wireless internet connection and no cell phone coverage. No breakfast available on site. The price/quality […] ratio is ridiculous. I paid a huge amount for a room that wasn't worth it. I felt strongly disappointed with my choice. You should delete this hotel from your web site if you want to maintain a good reputation. 阅读更多信息Expedia 真实住客点评
"Not a good experience!!"
The room was not all how it appeared in the pic online. It was the most uncomfortable bed I have ever slept in. The tub and shower were just the basic,when on the site it said the room had a jacuzzi tub!! It was stated we would have a flat screen TV and the room did not even have that!! It needs a serious update to make it more modern. I couldn't even […] brew coffee in the morning because there was mildew inside the brewer. YUCK!! Would not recommend and will never again stay there. I paid $198/nite for horrible service and horrible experience. 阅读更多信息Expedia 真实住客点评
"Fort Bragg august 2013"
My overall impression of this inn and spa is that it was clean and the management tries hard to accommodate. The only problems I had were: when we first got there after prebooking our room online (which stated pets allowed). There was no room available to accommodate us. The manager made an accommodation for me but it cost me more money! Make sure you […] call the hotel before booking online to make sure you don't have the problem I did. It was also a little noisy early in the morning before 8am, but that's pretty typical these days people don't seems to think about time in relation to others needs. I guess the online systems don't allow for this type of detail from the hotels. Or I would have know there was a problem with having a pet. This is what I was told. Overall as I said they went above and beyond to accommodate. Just did not like the surprise that it was not disclosed to call first and having to pay more. It was already expensive. Location...location... 阅读更多信息Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"not the room I requested"
the rooms are not worth the price, it was not the room I registered for online and cost moreExpedia 真实住客点评
"Old, and cheap!!!"
Kina creepy, really. Would never stay there again. For the same price you can get free wifi, a pool, and breakfast. Don't go!Expedia 真实住客点评
"very nice (health-heaven)"
near a wonderful beach (walking distance); clean & quaint; wonderfully surprised by the health foods and products at the hotel; shower at the hot tub wasn't working (nor the hot tub pumps—the heated water was nice though)Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Great Host, Hotel To Be Desired"
Pretty basic hotel with paper thin walls and rude neighbors that made surrounding rooms smell like cigarettes. The host did everything she could to try and fix it. Rooms were all booked up for 4th of July weekend. Given condition of hotel and a holiday weekend, I felt the room was way over-priced. $150/night did not feel like bargain.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Barely usable as a last minute place to stay."
It was very unclean, lots of cobwebs everywhere,and really did not quite match the room description or photos on the site. The whole room was damp and musty but because it was a holiday weekend there was no other room available to move to. The bed was about as comfortable as sleeping on a marble slab and there was not even a hair dryer in the room, […] we did however get one from the front desk after calling 4 times to try and procure one. When we got the hair dryer it was somehow soiled if that is even possible to do to a hair dryer. Over all it was barely acceptable to stay at. Also the price was stupid expensive for what you get, i've stayed in SF in a nice room for less than what I payed to stay here. 阅读更多信息Expedia 真实住客点评
"Dirty and overpriced"
We booked this place mainly because the list price was at least twice as much as the actual price, so we thought we were getting a good deal, plus the spa part made it sound nice. Don't be fooled. This is really just a low-grade dirty motel with a clever marketing strategy. Someone's old coffee was still in the coffee pot and there were empty beer cans […] in the trash. The bed was uncomfortable and nothing felt clean. 阅读更多信息Hotels.com 真实住客点评
The hotel was easy to find after exiting off of the highway. The hotel keeper was pleasant enough, but not overly so. There is coffee in the room, other than that, no food or refreshments onsite. There is a Denny's with very good prices in town as well as several other restaurants. Not a place to linger, but a good place to stop over if you are doing […] a longer drive and getting up and going. Fairly clean and well kept. Good value for the money. 阅读更多信息Expedia 真实住客点评
"Only if you don't have any other options"
I staid here right at the beginning of the summer, so every other hotel was full. It was very pricy for what the hotel can offer. It wasn't the newest or cleanest. There's not much walking distance. You will have to drive to places if you want to to anything around. It's a hotel right on the side of the road, and other guests were loud at night. Unless […] you just need a place to crash, and you happen to get a good deal. Don't stay here... 阅读更多信息Expedia 真实住客点评
"nice place in Ft. Bragg"
Nice rooms, clean, staff was great - AWESOME hot tub.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
Don't stay here. Way over priced. Should have stayed in my car.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Not so great"
Not so great of place but, was ok for a night.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Quite expensive for "Winter Rates""
We booked the "one room left" and when we pulled in at 7 -7:30 in the evening the lot was EMPTY. In the morning as we were leaving, two hours early, still no cars in the parking lot. I don't believe we got the "last room" . And the rate was OUTRAGEOUS compared to what we got in Oregon the next day. No carpet of any kind in the whole room including bathroom. […] The rooms were totally different categories; not what we thought when we booked them, but what they ended up being were two TOTALLY different room conditions, bed condition, VIEW, and PRICE. That is OUR take on it and for this we won't return. 阅读更多信息Expedia 真实住客点评
"kind of misleading"
I have no complaints, but the pictures on the internet and the actual room are two different things. Way smaller than the pictures. The gal at the front desk told me she was giving me a free upgrade to a room with a fireplace. I was so excited until I entered the room and found out it was an electrical fireplace that took me 10 minutes to figure out […] because buttons weren't labeled. Other than that, it was a very clean room and close to restaurants. 阅读更多信息Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Overpriced motel"
Not what we expected for that price. Nice proprietor, but we were deeply disappointed from the minute we laid eyes on the place.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Nice little motel in Fort Bragg"
Room was very comfortable. Older property, well maintained, easy to find on Highway 1 as you're coming in to town. Not much within walking distance, but a pleasant place to stay.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Not Exactly Worth the Extra Cost"
My wife and I stayed here for one night. We were deciding between this and one of the lower cost national chains. Based on the hotels.com website and the website of the place, it looked like this one was nicer and worth paying an extra $30-$40 per night. It wasn't really. The room was a little nicer than maybe you would expect from a budget hotel, but […] the walls were super thin. We could basically hear the TV, muffled conversations and footsteps of the people next door (early in the morning). The hot tub and porch area was nice, just not $30-$40 more per night kind of nice. Maybe if we'd stayed there longer, used some of the spa services, enjoyed the picnic area and porch a bit more it would have seemed worth it. From now on, if we're just looking for somewhere to stay for the night, I'm going with the lowest price for a bed and bathroom. 阅读更多信息Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Comfortable place to sleep and go."
Older Hotel, not really for Handicap access, My father hard time to step up and down step entry to door. Heaters old but work. beds comfortable, rooms dark, vending machine across parking lot. Last minute stay , no vacancy down town.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Clean But Not Much Else"
The room was fine but not what we expected. We checked out their website before booking and it 'appeared' that the king bed rooms all had spa tubs and were spacious in size. This was not the case. The room was alright but the bed took up almost all the space when you added the dresser and desk. It was clean and pleasant but we were disappointed that […] there was nothing included for the price. No continental breakfast, limited space to relax and only one ice machine for the entire place. Considering you have no ocean view, it seemed a bit pricey to us. 阅读更多信息Expedia 真实住客点评
"Adequate but just to sleep."
OK as a place to sleep, but not to hang-out. The spa looks like a joke, but we didn't actually use it. While not terrible, it was nothing like the pictures. Just an old motel, and just adequate.Expedia 真实住客点评
seemed from online description to be on or near the beach.not even close.hard to find someone to check us in or help w/directions. went to use the hot tub had to lift off the cover ourselves and found cigarette butts under cover. generally shabbyHotels.com 真实住客点评
"Horrible inn"
The worst inn I ever stayed in. Urine spots on toilet seat not cleaned even after pointing out Constant smell of sewerage from the room. Dirty sheets not replaced for 2 days. No one at the front desk for hours.Expedia 真实住客点评
"Not as we expected"
The staff was delightful. Unfortunately the quality of the hotel did not fit the price. The door passes had to be rekeyed several times. Three occupants ended up with only one key. The controls for the television had to be reprogramed 3-5 times per day. The facility was being powerwashed both days so any day time reading outside of our room was impossible. […] I was very embarrassed and disapointed as this stay was for my mother's 87th birthday. 阅读更多信息Expedia 真实住客点评
"Lovely little spot"
The hotels.com representative told us over the phone that this hotel and our room had ocean views. When we arrived to see that this wasn't the case at all, we were quite disappointed. However, what we found was a lovely experience that we probably wouldn't have had otherwise. The owner of the hotel was exceptionally friendly, helpful, and kind. She […] made us tea when we got back at night and made sure we were having a nice stay. The bed and sheets were very comfortable. The room was clean. A fireplace in our room/ as well as jacuzzi. Short drive to ocean/State Park/ downtown area. We were only there for a short stay but it was very pleasant. There's a little restaurant with health food/ph balanced foods that we will definitely try if we ever return to Fort Bragg. 阅读更多信息Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Its OK"
From the other reviews I thought I'd booked a dog. But the motel is fine. All the basics are provided appropriately at a reasonable rate.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
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"won't stay again"
rooms were not as advertized. one roll of toilet paper, one waste basket. the shower stopped working. the beds are not all pillow top. in our room the did not exist. the lady that ran the place was nice. but in all fairness, all the hotels are basically i the same catagory, in this area Fort BraggHotels.com 真实住客点评
初めて行く場所だったので、適当にホテルの名前で選びました。 spaがあるのも魅力でした。 しかしながら、建物は古く、安普請。 最も残念だったのは、spaと謳っているのに ジャグジーが部屋とは別の離れたうらぶれた場所にあり、 夜の9時には電気が消されていたことでした。 海岸沿いに多くのホテルがあり、この次は 別のホテルに泊まると思いますExpedia 真实住客点评
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