Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month clubs flourish; people, according to an amazed Time Magazine, actually buy paintings, and Fine Arts 13 is crowded. While the culture boom has been conspicious in the field of the "fine arts" one need not be a sociologist with a Ph.D. or even a reader of the New Yorker to be aware that the popularity and prestige of wall to wall hi-fi sets, automobiles that will fit through your front door, and modern houses without doors lies in their association in the public mind with "modern" comfort and culture. If art appreciation no longer constitutes the badge...
...flounder and had not got sick. Dr. Singley remembered having read in medical school a 1945 report of sodium nitrite poisoning in New York City. A colleague clinched it: he had just reread the same story in Berton Roueché's Eleven Blue Men, reprinted from The New Yorker. Simultaneously, unknown to the Camden team, doctors across the Delaware River were giving methylene blue to women who had eaten flounder in a downtown restaurant...
...something other than the narrowness and lack of cultural feeling which the term usually connotes. It is rather a posture of universality, created by the sense of being superlative in certain areas. New York City is in this way an example of provincialism, in that the staunch, chauvinistic New Yorker sees his city as a microcosm of the universe, and believes that everything important in the world is in some way embraced by New York. Similarly, Harvard's well-known complacency regarding its academic superiority affects its powers of self-evaluation: it can recognize and examine its own academic characteristics...
...screen rights to all of Bernard Shaw's plays--said to Behrman, "Sahm, you know I ahm illegitimate descendant Talleyrand." Two weeks later, Behrman met Pascal again and the producer said, "Sahm, did I tell you I ahm illegitimate descendant Metternich?" Recounting these incidents in an unpublished New Yorker profile of Pascal, Behrman wrote, "Whatever differences may have separated the Congress of Vienna, it was united on at least one thing: to have some share, however remote, in Pascal's paternity." Pascal's coment on reading the profile was: "There is thin line between genius and charlatan, and Sahm...
...present, Behrman is working on a long profile of Beerbohm for the New Yorker and attempting to raise enough money for Houghton Library to obtain the 25-year correspondence between the "incomparable Max" and Frederick Turner (it was Turner who said, when the dying Oscar Wilde told him of dreaming of supping with the dead, "I'm sure, Oscar, you were the life and soul of the party."). The New Yorker series on Beerbohm is likely to grow into a book, as did The Worcester Account (on which The Cold Wind and the Warm is based) and Duveen...