Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unusual personality. He is the self-styled Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, once a Brooklyn-born orphan boy named Harry Gerguson, who spent half his life amiably panhandling the rich of two continents. But in Hollywood, where Mike Romanoff settled after being immortalized in a five-part New Yorker profile, he finally cashed in on the fact that he is one of the few genuine, 24-carat phonies in a city where thin plating has often been known to pose for the real thing...
...humor of simple incongruity, based only on the bizarre actions and appearances of its characters. The content of Addams' cartoons is monotonously repetitive; he simply switches the characters from one old situation to another. Addams shows little of the originality, the fresh viewpoint, so common to his companion New Yorker cartoonists. Unless you are bemused by the deformed and the deformer, "Monster Rally" may convince you that Addams does not belong in the same league...
...critics were still wrangling at the top of their voices over Ernest Hemingway. His Across the River and into the Trees (deftly parodied by E. B. White in The New Yorker as Across the Street and into the Grill) had strong popular support; it stood firmly at the top of the bestseller list. There was also moral support from fellow Writer Evelyn Waugh. The critics, wrote Waugh in London's Catholic weekly, the Tablet, ". . . have been smug, condescending, derisive, some with unconcealed glee, some with an affectation of pity; all are agreed that there is a great failure...
William James, proxy of the "Pontoon," announced yesterday the changes which he and his board hope to put through at the aviary. "No more of this pallid imitation of the New Yorker.' We're going to print two-line jokes, funny articles, and humorous cartoons. It's going to be a complete change...
...born in steady, suburban Westfield, N.J., attended Colgate and the University of Pennsylvania for a while until he hit on what seemed a better idea: professional art school. One day he sold a decorative sketch to The New Yorker, soon began to sell them cartoons too. Nowadays, reliable as anything, he does 40 to 50 cartoons a year for the magazine...