Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding your [Oct. 22] review of The New Yorker Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Album and the line, "Cartoonist Carl Rose's 'I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with...
Toots Shor, according to one of his many friends, "has more on the ball than Hubbell." To those for whom this quotation is meaningless, this book will have little interest, for it is a series of three articles, reprinted from the New Yorker, describing New York's most fabulous saloonkeeper and sports...
...shameful that the New Yorker-like, the mature, the cosmopolitan CRIMSON should sound like the newspaper of a whistle-stop: It must fairly be admitted that the latter at least spare their readers a diagram of form, unless they have by mischance become pretentious...
...yelling for freedom to do as it pleases, because generally no one keeps it from doing as it pleases. It is not rebellious-either against convention or instruction, the state or fate, Pop or Mom. Toward its parents, it exhibits an indulgent tolerance. As one young New Yorker put it with a shrug: "Why insult the folks...
...Dreams That Money Can Buy." Probably no one could tell you precisely what the film is about--it makes no pretensions at hanging together all of a piece and giving any single, clear meaning. But the word "surrealist" shouldn't frighten you off. With no more than a New Yorker-level of knowledge of Freud, a little patience for modern music and art, and the least bit of initial curiosity, this quite amazing motion picture will soon sweep you up and carry you along in a swirl of color and sound without bewildering you hardly...