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

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

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

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

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 . . .