Word: yorkerism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Wolcott Gibbs, 56, writer and drama critic for The New Yorker magazine, author of the 1950 Broadway hit comedy Season in the Sun, which chronicled the sins and insecurities of the Manhattan literary set's Fire Island summer resort; of a heart attack at his summer home on Fire Island...
...three-man jury:* first prize ($1,500), Manhattan Abstractionist John Ferren, 52, for his The Birches; second ($750), Social Realist Semyon Shimin, 55, for his Discussion Groups-Rome, sketched in Rome during the 1956 elections but finished in Manhattan; and third ($250), Milton Goldring, 40, also a New Yorker, for his Shadow and Substance. The predominant tone of the festival is abstract expressionist, and imitative of the leaders of that movement...
Also, Phillip Ewald, promotion director of the New Yorker; Hardick Mosely, sales manager of Houghton Mifflin Co.; Jason Epstein, editor-in-chief of Anchor Books; and George Hunt, assistant managing editor of Life Magazine...
...real estate to get money to educate his children. Julius Tishman built small tenements in downtown Manhattan until 1910. Then he decided, against all advice, to erect a nine-story luxury apartment on Manhattan's West 93rd Street, despite a tradition that no well-to-do New Yorker would live above 86th Street. The building was profitable, and Julius Tishman made his fortune by continuing to build above 86th Street for the next ten years...
Author Alpert, 41, who has written for magazines as dissimilar as The New Yorker and Seventeen, has some difficulty totting up the reasons for Sally's amoral behavior. He gets in a few licks at "progressive" education, cuttingly describes the "intellectual bohemianism" of Sally's environment, and then seems to veer to a primitive belief that women lack souls-or, at any rate, consciences. At summer's end all of the men have in a sense been used up and thrown away. The women, as usual, are in control. All in all, the book is satisfactory seashore...