Word: yorkerism
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...Maire, Delany walks through the Irish countryside more like a street-wise New Yorker than a demure milkmaid. It is difficult to believe that she has ever seen a cow, much less milked one. Her charisma is regrettably undermined by an awkward performance...
...honest speaker would have responded to the many well-reasoned and good-faith criticisms recently leveled against the book. Of late, the popular press has been filled with such articles. The self-described "Act II" for the evening--Gould--wrote an article which appeared in November's The New Yorker containing a number of critiques of the book. Murray admitted to having read the article, presumably months ago, yet inexplicably chose not to address any of Gould's points...
...performance at the forum was a rather uninspired, and uninspiring, bit of fluff. The only interesting comments of the evening came from Gould. Every interested person who missed the debate should read his comments in the The New Yorker. Given the chance to relive Tuesday evening, I would have elected to stay home and carefully read Gould's article to get some real intellectual debate...
...indication that certain courses are more difficult than others. This plan would run into the obvious problem of how to decide upon which classes are excruciating, and which are more humane. Asking professors whether their courses are the most challenging and demanding would be rather like asking a New Yorker whether New York or Los Angeles is a nicer city. Judging by the CUE guide ratings would be to codify and memorialize the hurried, and often vindictive, comments and evaluations dashed off on the way out of a crowded lecture hall...
Former Crimson editor Michael E. Kinsley '72 brought the better-than thou tradition to the New Yorker. In a Comment on "The Intellectual Free Lunch," (Feb. 6, 1995) Kinsley wrote: "It is contemptuous, not respectful, to excuse 'the people' from all demands of intellectual rigor or honesty on the ground that their judgments are wise by definition...