Brendan Gill
Brendan Gill
Brendan Gillwrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years. He also contributed film criticism for Film Comment and wrote a popular book about his time at the New Yorker magazine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 October 1914
CountryUnited States of America
running war inspirational-life
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.
contracts later run stage uncommon
It is not uncommon for contracts like this to run later than expected. We're just not at that stage yet to proceed.
bridge perspective problem structural
We don't think there's any problem from an engineering perspective or a structural perspective. The bridge is safe.
address position shift
We're going to address the problem. If you want to characterize that as a shift in the position of the department, that would be fair.
current depends lighting trouble
It depends on what they find. Basically, they're replacing lighting devices, doing some troubleshooting and eliminating any trouble with the current lighting.
based icing predict
Based on the forecast, we do predict icing will be a problem.
exactly practices
What exactly happened? How did our practices work? Could we have done more?
direct express mean means
Express doesn't necessarily mean faster. It just means direct -- direct to the bridge.
death mourning ends
To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.
butterfly eye blue
I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.
summer morning order
The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.
levels intention scales
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.
water gods-and-goddesses shapes
In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniature Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.
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Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.