Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing makes a New Yorker happier than the sight of an old building rich in memories of the past-unless it is tearing the damn thing down and replacing it with something in chromium and plate glass, with no traditions at all. Last week, as Manhattan vibrated to its biggest building boom since the '20s, old landmarks were toppling all over town...
...native New Yorker, still stubbornly seeking out the old, the fusty, and the slightly uncomfortable amidst the encroaching wilderness of stainless steel and blank glass, sighed a wistful sigh. The movers and shakers took no notice, determinedly pressed forward...
...innovation, Girard Trust won the 1949 "Oscar of Industry" award for the best financial report of any U.S. financial institution, and gained readers as far away as South Africa. This week, in its 113th annual report, Girard Trust turned the tables on itself. It ran cartoons by The New Yorker's Perry Barlow kidding its own officers, particularly vice presidents, topped things off with a guffaw at the hidebound conservatism of banks in general...
...outfit known as Fact Finders Inc. showed over 85% of the commuters approved, hauled out a psychiatrist who said the noise could harm nobody who was all right in the head. The whole storm of protest, complained that railroads, was started by "an adult comic book," i.e., The New Yorker magazine...