Word: gatherum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subscribers. In another sense, that world seemed to have no boundaries. It played host to Alexander Woollcott, Parker and Robert Benchley, and published the poems and short stories of almost every writer worth a second look. Such diversity should imply a 50-year-old scrapbook, an omnium-gatherum without standards or values. The literate world knows better. The very term "New Yorker piece" connotes scruple and concern...