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I Bet He'll Use His Wish to Improve the Knicks

Martin Schneider writes: It wouldn't be right to let Woody Allen's 74th birthday pass without acknowledgment! Happy birthday, Woody. May the bon mots keep flowing.

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A Report: Nixon, Oppenheimer, Faust, and John Adams at Yale

In October we were very pleased to present Jenny Blair's account of Platon's New Yorker Festival event. Today Blair has volunteered to bring us a detailed report of a fascinating lecture by the composer John Adams in New Haven, which occurred last week.—Martin Schneider Jenny Blair writes: The composer John Adams visited Yale University last week to give the prestigious Tanner...

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Nibbles From a Bass: More New Yorker Festival Highlights We Dug

... informative and well worth attending. [For more about "New Math," read Emdashes editor Martin Schneider's wonderfully thoughtful and detailed review of the event.] ... • "Master Class: Cartooning" with cartoon editor Bob Mankoff . I'm no cartoonist, much less one worthy of attending a master class, but I was all over the chance to hear an exemplar talk shop....