Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaigned hard. He ranged across Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Idaho, Utah and Nevada in a chartered DC-3. Before he turned homeward, he had made 14 speeches, held ten press conferences, worked a backbreaking 17-hour day that sapped staff members and newsmen. On the 64-year-old New Yorker, the crushing schedule seemed to work like a tonic...
...western audiences generally reacted warmly, thought they saw in Harriman some hints of another New Yorker they remembered. There was the same highbred pronunciation and frequent use of the phrase "My friends." At a Spokane breakfast meeting, Harriman was introduced as "another Franklin Roosevelt...
While I find much of his garish fantasy a little too theatrical, perhaps better suited to a New Yorker cover than a New York museum, Berger does have a good deal to say even in the atmospheric mist of his paintings. He also displays not only creative color sense but fine draughtsmanship. The economy of line and airiness of the ivory and sepia study Mother and Child are examples of the almost oriental sensitivity and skill of understatement of which he is capable...