Word: shawn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never invites the reader to "bill me later." Editorially, too, The New Yorker courts writers, not readers. Even the word reader-as in "Would the reader understand this?"-is not heard around the office. The only reader who counts is the elusive and gifted editor, the famously unfamous William Shawn, whose name does not even appear in the magazine. Shawn...
...evening also saw a B.U. assault on the record books with freshmen Barb Sumner and Sue Kitchen, and junior Shawn McCluskey, blazing the path towards five new team and pool records...
...months, but word did finally come last week that Manning had been replaced. The Atlantic's new helmsman is William Whitworth, 43, a highly respected associate editor at The New Yorker, and one of several potential successors to that magazine's long-reigning editor in chief, William Shawn...
...review, which comes not long after Kael returned from a desultory nine-month stint as a Hollywood consultant, made others in the word business a bit nervous. "Unfortunate," sniffed New Yorker Editor William Shawn, who quickly added that "every writer has a right to express himself." "Absolutely terrific!" said New York Times Critic Frank Rich. "I'm just glad it wasn't written about me." "Adler," said New York Magazine Critic David Denby, "had an 'oldfashioned' notion of prose." "I don't think that Pauline is a rigorous, logical thinker," volunteered National Review Film Critic...
That Harvard played a fine ballgame seemed unimportant, for few teams could have lost to Northeastern yesterday. Philanthropic hurlers Norman Michaud and Shawn Brickman walked ten batters, including at least one every inning, while their infielders played dodgeball with each other's throws...