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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Insensate Village Pride

Rose Hill

"As the late Fred Allen used to say -- 'everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.' This parochialism is common in all the big cities of the East, but in New York City it amounts to a kind of insensate village pride."
Alistair Cooke, Alistair Cooke's America