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William Whitworth’s Legacy – The Atlantic
William Whitworth, the editor of The Atlantic from 1980 to 1999, had a soft voice and an Arkansas accent that 50 years of living in New York and New England never much eroded. It was as much a part of him as his love of jazz, his understated sartorial consistency, and his deep dismay when encountering the misuse of lie and lay, a battle he knew he had lost but continued to fight. Bill, who led this
JJ Sempés „Morgenmusik“
Als Jean-Jacques Sempé oder JJ, wie er in Amerika genannt wurde, am 11. August im Alter von 89 Jahren verstarb, twitterte der französische Präsident Emmanuel Macron: „[He] hatte die Eleganz, immer unbeschwert zu bleiben, ohne jemals einen Takt zu verpassen.“ Der Tribut war einer von vielen auf beiden Seiten des Atlantiks; Er war der seltene gallische Künstler, der von den Amerikanern geliebt wurde und der es schaffte, seine Anziehungskraft in den Augen seiner Landsleute nie zu verlieren. Der Schriftsteller Charles
Tabula Rasa: Volume Three, by John McPhee
“You would screw it up!” he said, and he started off, aiming upriver at forty-five degrees. The river was only two or three hundred feet wide, but the crossing proceeded slowly, because we were moving southwest and northwest at the same time. My heart was beating between my teeth. The left bank was almost uniformly high and steep there, but Len hit a spot where a gully had worn down. The next day, we crossed the river twice, just to