Word: shawn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grim Period. To many readers the editorials* suggested that The New Yorker is changing, that it is taking a new interest in serious issues. Mild-mannered Editor William Shawn almost sighs at the idea. He heard the same reaction when an issue of the magazine was given over to John Hersey's documentary on Hiroshima in 1946; when it carried Rachel Carson's warning against contamination. Silent Spring, in 1962; when it ran Richard Harris' analysis of the Justice Department last year. And he has heard it on many other occasions, including the aftermath of editorial attacks...
...here and live on the Hayden Hall stage, real Show Biz. They play with a studied boredom because they know people are not there to see rock musicians. They are just filler-in the Show Biz tradition-to keep the marks quiet until the start of the big act. Shawn Masters, the world's Greatest Hypnotist...
...once you accept that he is human, Shawn Masters is about right to be a hypnotist. Fleshy and self-assured, he has something of the same air that a photogenic politician or male movie star has when seen in person: the slightly artificial, larger-than-life appearance of a man who has been weathered by thousands of eyes. He's the sort of guy about whom people say, "He looks just like his pictures." just close enough and they'll go home satisfied. Tonight Shawn Masters is going to give both to the crowd-almost. And he's going...