Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department economist, was accused of being a Communist back in 1948, he defended himself with such injured but manly firmness that he won what seemed to be vindication of a sort. The top U.S. loyalty review board sent him back to his $10,330-a-year job. The New Yorker ran a 24-column article about his ordeal. Meanwhile, Remington sued for $100,000 and got an out-of-court settlement from the network and sponsor of a television program on which onetime Communist Courier Elizabeth Bentley had affirmed her accusations-that he was a member of the party...
...Clay Greenberg threatened a temporary injunction against the edict. "I am concerned," he said, "with whether the commissioner has a right to set himself up as a dictator." At that point, McCaffrey weakened. While waiting for a full hearing this week, he lifted the ban. That evening, any New Yorker with the price of a ticket ($1.50) could see The Miracle and judge for himself whether it was worth all the todo...
Broadway to the Alps. The search for the River is not the first trip on the Amazon for Author Ullman, a rangy, weatherbeaten New Yorker who has put in his share of time among high mountains and in far-off jungles. A onetime Broadway producer (Pulitzer Prize-winning Men in White), he left Manhattan in 1936, after a series of flops, and headed straight for South America. Afterwards he wrote a fresh, lively account of his adventures in The Other Side of the Mountain...
...well as a career, of giving calculated affront to poetry. The difference between Nash and his imitators is that somewhere in the cunningly dislocated gears of his lines he imprisons a patented point of view. It was observable in one of his earliest verses (sold to The New Yorker, in 1930), which began...
Season in the Sun, a play by the "New Yorker's" witty drama critic, Wolcott Gibbs, is the outstanding farce of the season. It concerns life on Fire Island and is acted by a fine crow of competent performers...