Word: yorkerism
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...reminds me of the help and encouragement they gave me in school," wrote a Texas woman. "It doesn't surprise me in the least that they have responded so generously to the study," a Chicago woman noted. "It's just like them to keep on giving." Said a New Yorker: "It's no wonder the nuns are donating their brains, since they gave their hearts and souls to me and 50 classmates. What a group of angels...
...personal tormentor, John Updike. Updike came to Harvard on scholarship in the early 50s, earning excellent marks throughout his undergraduate career (the only black mark on his record being his presidency of the Harvard Lampoon). He graduated summa cum laude and immediately went to work for The New Yorker, shortly after which he published his first novel and a collection of short stories. Mind you, I don’t even like his fiction. But I do begrudge Updike his glorious biographical entry. Let’s face it: the biographical entry is just about the only place where things...
...week before the South Carolina primary, I joined the candidate on a mid- day run. We talked about Yale then, too. He said the university president, Richard Levin, had called him when The New Yorker magazine got hold of his college transcript. Levin promised that no one from Yale's administration had released it. I could tell the exposing of his transcript bothered Bush. But I also could tell that he appreciated the way Levin was handling it. Bush's feelings about Yale already seemed to be changing. In the general election campaign, he started mentioning Yale more frequently...
...publisher, while bemoaning the current lack of serious and talented writers in the “man of letters” category, admitted, “There are brilliant writers—Louis Menand is perhaps the all-around best.” A staff writer at The New Yorker and Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Menand’s Metaphysical Club is a triumph of intelligent writing. He addresses a set of divinely elegant themes that speak to the very essence of what so many of us either take...
...problem is the Supreme Court, which has ruled that a business must have an in-state physical presence - like a warehouse or a retail store - before a state can require sales tax collections on out-of-state purchases. (That's why when a New Yorker buys from Maine-based L.L. Bean, which doesn't have stores in New York, he or she doesn't pay tax. If, however, they bought from J. Crew, which has many stores in New York, they are taxed.) The other is the tech lobby, which lives in mortal fear of the dizzying array of state...