Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nine Stories, most of them reprinted from the New Yorker, all illustrate Salinger's skillful use of children to provide a contrast to his adult characters. It is this child and adult world which is so unique in Salinger's work. He has a talent enabling him to merge the fantasy and illogic of a child's existence with the more stolid pomposity of his elders. Usually, the cast of Salinger's horror is a situation terrifying to one character, the adult or the child, but merely commonplace to the other...
...tears as he thought of how well the Chief knew and loved them.) The way he wriggles the poor minister out of the middle of the nasty dispute between the two church factions. The way he handles the dialogue, and uses it to draw out their parochialism. Real New Yorker stuff...
...first man to boom Long Islander Hall for the chairmanship was House Speaker Joe Martin, who toured the world with him in 1951. Then Governor Tom Dewey stepped in behind his fellow New Yorker, although Dewey and Hall, old friends, had recently been on opposite sides of a factional fight in New York. Hall traveled with Eisenhower during most of the campaign last fall. After a call at the White House last week, Hall smilingly said he would take the job if it were offered...
...boring commercials that force their way into your living room." While the advertising spiel goes off, the TV picture stays on, so that viewers can tell when the commercial is over and switch the sound on again. Price: $2.98. Advertisements for Blab-Off have been refused by The New Yorker Magazine, the New York Times and the Herald Tribune, possibly because the sales pitch was right up there with the longest, loudest commercials : "Money Back If Not Delighted . . . Positively Guaranteed. . . It's Easy It's Simple, It's Sure...
Honest Exuberance. Wonderful Town is a simple musical fable about two venturesome Ohio sisters who invade Manhattan. One (Edith Adams) has a come-hither eye; the other (Rosalind Russell) has a go-to manner. Based on the humorous New Yorker short stories by Ruth McKenney, the show has had a long dramatic history: it was a 1940 Broadway hit as My Sister Eileen, starring this year's Oscar-winning Shirley Booth (see CINEMA). Rosalind made the movie version in 1942 and has played the role of Ruth in a dozen radio broadcasts. Though always successful, the show was never...