Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Norman Dello Joio's The Ruby, at Indiana University, Bloomington, had an effective libretto taken from the Lord Dunsany thriller about ruffians who steal the jeweled eye of an oriental idol only to meet the idol's gruesome, supernatural revenge. New Yorker Dello Joio, 42, known for the ballet On Stage! and the opera The Triumph of St. Joan, has mastered the stage idiom, molded his music in short, restless phrases. His score was notably effective, if not very modern...
Before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on refugee problems, New Yorker Corsi loudly played to the hilt the role of a martyred champion of refugees who are seeking to enter the U.S. The refugee act. he said, became a "national scandal" because of the way it was administered by "a security gang" led by Robert W. Scott McLeod, the State Department's security director. Cried Corsi: "The administration of the act is wholly dominated by the psychology of security. Refugees are investigated to death . . . The investigation, the police job, is the thing, not the admission of refugees. That is just...
Congratulations on one of the most beautiful photo presentations of New York City I have ever seen. The spectacular views in the March 28th issue of TIME will make every New Yorker even more proud of our great city and will undoubtedly stimulate much visitor travel here by your many other readers in the U.S. and throughout the world...
Author Emily Hahn, whose youthful passion for Manila cigars, free love and self-advertisement caused arching eyebrows from Shanghai to Chungking in the 19305, has now maturely channeled her fierce independence to good cause. With the informal, sometimes gabby style of her China Coast pieces in The New Yorker, and of her bestsellers (China to Me, The Soong Sisters), she has written the first popular biography to examine Chiang in the only way he can be understood: as a singularly great man, a lonely combination of Confucian self-discipline and Methodist virtue, forced to fight at once against centuries...
...almost impossible to ignore a novelist who produces 956 closely printed pages. William Gaddis, a 33-year-old New Yorker who has never published a book before, rates attention for other reasons as well. He has written this novel from that dark night of the soul where, as F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, "it is always three o'clock in the morning." To the small army of "beat generation" characters in The Recognitions, dawn never comes...