Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine, to be titled "I.E., the Cambridge Review," will include the efforts not only of undergraduates, but of authors whose work has been published in such magazines as the New Yorker, Partisan Review, and Poetry...
...satiric drawings of Saul Steinberg appeal to brows of all elevations. They have been admired in The New Yorker hung in some of the world's great museums, and reproduced on wallpaper fabrics and greeting cards. Last week 350 of them appeared in a book (The Passport-Harper; $5). Most books of cartoons pall pretty fast; thumbing them drubs the funnybone to numbness. With Steinberg's book: the drubbing is acute and varied enough to remain a slightly painful pleasure for an hour or so despite the fact that the book is clumsily laid out and padded with...
...picture of the Ruhr reeks of human ruin. Its smells jar the senses; its sounds are grotesque. Böll writes with simple beauty, but often he treats despair with that detailed evenness that the dull st of The New Yorker writers apply to domestic crises in suburban Connecticut. And sometimes Author Böll's sense of the macabre runs amuck. As Kate tells Fred that she is pregnant again, the druggists outside the hotel are applauding a flight of small planes that drop contraceptive ads followed by red rubber toy storks with broken necks...
...Assembly), Ives decided to try national politics. In 1946, he ran against formidable ex-Governor Herbert Lehman for a seat in the U.S. Senate. The voters gave Lehman the licking of his life, and sent Ives off to Washington with an astonishing plurality (251,000 votes), the first New Yorker to sit on the Republican side of the Senate in 20 years...
...steady 14-under-par for a null total of 274 to win the Tam O'Shanter World Championship of Golf and a first prize worth $100,000 in cash and exhibition fees. Tied for second, just one stroke and $90,000 behind: Texan Earl Stewart and New Yorker Jack Burke...