New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite-the taxi driver.

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.

The blue-rinse warbler and her horn-rimmed mate are rare and overdue this year.

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition . . .

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.