Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thou must choose Between the chances, choose the odd; Read The New Yorker, trust...
Taking these figures into account, and reckoning the average New Yorker as being two feet wide and one foot deep (height no object, we discovered the following interesting statistics...
...first tour of England fell apart before it got started when his English manager dropped dead. Once, while his piano was taken off to Rio de Janeiro, he was left standing on the dock for lack of a visa. Two years after his sensational U.S. debut, a New Yorker critic wrote: "It wouldn't be hard to make a catalogue of Mr. Barere's accomplishments, but he doesn't need a catalogue. He needs an audience...
...used by Americans (the project on which Editor Mathews served his apprenticeship), the Dictionary of Americanisms includes only those stamped unmistakably with the label "Made in U.S.A." To find them, Mathews plowed through the 100 volumes of the Colonial Records of New England, searched back issues of The New Yorker and TIME, followed Li'l Abner for months. He read the diaries of Cotton Mather and those of a Civil War housewife in Montgomery, Ala. He consulted scholars and experts, from H. L. (The American Language") Mencken down to a lifer in a federal prison who told him about...
...sensitive chisel can tease stone to life, and Saul Baizerman's Eve proved that it is also possible to hammer life into a sheet of copper. The water-colors ranged from the sweet, wet realism of Californian John Langley Howard's Coast Line to New Yorker Hans Hofmann's wholly abstract and strikingly handsome Composition...