Word: shawn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...millions of Americans when he said, "I can't begin to calculate all the things I have learned from LIFE. I'm not quite the same person I was because of what I saw and read in its pages." The New Yorker's managing editor, William Shawn, mourned a personal loss: "LIFE invented a great new form of journalism. It contributed much to the American community that was valuable, often reaching moments of brilliance and beauty. It's extremely sad to see it go; LIFE was a triumph from beginning...
This week The New Yorker is publishing the 12,000-word scenario written by Bergman for his latest movie, Whisperings and Cries, which will be released in the U.S. in a month or so. "It reads like a long piece of fiction," says Editor William Shawn. "It has all his different kinds of images, understanding of people, psychology, and seriousness." The scenario began as a picture in the director's head-"four women with white dresses in a red room"-and over a year or so it slowly developed into a convoluted story of three sisters and their servant...
...Yorker has always run articles about public issues," Editor Shawn says; the magazine can cite such warnings as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time ten years ago. But Shawn agrees that both the urgency and frequency of political pieces have increased sharply. In his view, the turning point was the 1970 Cambodian invasion. Richard Goodwin, once a Kennedy speechwriter, wrote a denunciation of Nixon's "usurpation" of power; Shawn used it as an editorial. After that "Notes and Comment," once the fluffy lead-in to each issue, frequently became...
...change coincided with some of the roughest weather The New Yorker had ever encountered in the narrow, sometimes viciously choppy New York publishing pond. Back in 1965, New York had run Tom Wolfe's satiric attack on Shawn and his magazine. Though shallow and unfair, Wolfe's article generated talk and crystallized the notion that The New Yorker had become musty and irrelevant. Then, in the late '60s, like other magazines, it began experiencing a money crunch. It continued to be profitable, but income shrank dramatically...
Outsiders naturally assumed that Shawn's response to adversity was new politics for The New Yorker-an impression strengthened by an advertising campaign that emphasized the stinging prose. But Shawn and his staff insist that there was no connection. "Even when things were at their worst," Shawn told TIME'S Horace Judson recently, "I have never felt any pressure. I can't imagine what the pressure could have bee'n. I did hear murmurings in the background, people in the advertising community who thought we were too sedate in our appearance. But we liked...