Word: yorkerism
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There is another revelation from being home as well, since I got a chance to catch up on my connections to the outside world, from mindless sitcoms to the pages of the New Yorker. I was once again rudely reminded of the Harvard insularity we adopt--did you know that starting today U.S. postage is 34 cents?--but I also appreciated reading an article on modern architecture and a discussion of the new state-by-state estimates of immigrant populations released by the Census Bureau. I mention them because I took classes on related subjects in semesters past...
...understand that Omaha is in the Great Plains, where space is not at a premium. You can pirouette down the sidewalk in Omaha if you want to. But space is limited here in New York City. And no New Yorker ever walks more than two abreast; even if you're in a group of ten people, you'll walk in five pairs, not ten across. Or even better, single file...
...wrong. I'm not a chauvinistic New Yorker. That Woody Allen superciliousness thing is old hat - and was wrong-headed to begin with. I despise the smugness of New Yorkers who think they live in the center of the universe, who think that all knowledge resides on this little island. New York is on the edge, not in the center; it's an anomaly, not the norm...
...amazement of the year the moment when George Pataki, deriding a reference by Hillary Clinton to E.B. White, said, "I don't know who that guy was, I don't know what he wrote...but it sure doesn't sound to me like that guy was a New Yorker." Mr. Pataki, a Yale graduate, is Governor of New York...
Willoughby's task as executive editor will be to make Gourmet's prose as captivating as that of its fellow Conde Nast publication The New Yorker, Willoughby said...