…in which two Thurberesque characters, a man and a woman, are dining on one of those tiny balconies that hang off the apartments of a certain kind of Manhattan high-rise dwelling, and one character says to the other, "Hurry up and eat your soup, Dear, before it gets dirty."
It appeared in the magazine 50 years ago, when I lived there. So this headline from today's Christian Science Monitor…
Cleanest air in 50 years! How did New York do it? - CSMonitor.com
…may be taken with a small grain of salt. Manhattan's clean air is not exactly mountain-fresh (or even high-rise fresh).
But all the same — good work, New York.
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