BUILDING CHARACTER—NEW YORK CITY IN THE 70′S.

BUILDING CHARACTER—NEW YORK CITY IN THE 70′S. Edward Herrmann is one of my favorite actors. He has a review today in the Wall Street journal of a new novel by Valerie Martin (THE CONFESSSIONS OF EDWARD DAY) which is set in New York City in the 1970′s. Herrmann notes that he himself moved to New York City in 1970 and says: “She hasn’t quite managed to bring New York of the 1970s convincingly to life: The novel would have been greatly sharpened if it had more fully evoked the ominous daily grind of living in the city back then, when the air of ­degeneracy and the stink of fear hung over the city.” Kids, your mother and I were living in New York all through the 70′s, and those were some of the challenges that built our characters.