Word: yorkerism
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Reading one of the New Yorker's long reportorial pieces is something like watching an up-country mason who knows his stuff build an unmortared stone wall. Progress is slow but nearly always interesting; and the result, gray and rough-textured, following the dips and rises of the ground at hand, is satisfying but not showy. Observing such deliberate construction can be marvelously soothing, as when Alec Wilkinson, one of the magazine's younger fact writers, lays down a long list of house names toward the beginning of an article on the Tlingit-speaking Native Americans of Admiralty Island...
...shorter New Yorker articles, one on the Portuguese-American fishermen of Provincetown, Mass., and the other, the title piece, on an environmentalist who patrols the Hudson River, are well sketched, though they might usefully have been longer. This is solid work in a traditional landscape, and the reader resolves to watch for more...
...lack of outrage among those likely to be most affected stems in part from the tangled nature of the incident that prompted the trouble. In December 1983 the New Yorker ran a two-part profile by Malcolm of Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, a psychoanalyst who had lost his job as projects director of the Sigmund Freud Archives in New York City. Published the next year by Knopf as In the Freud Archives, Malcolm's report apparently allowed Masson to destroy himself with his own words: his self-description as "an intellectual gigolo," his plan to transform Anna Freud's house, after...
...possibility threatened by Masson's appeal to the Supreme Court -- a draconian definition from the bench of how journalists should write their stories -- seemed even worse. A number of news organizations, including the American Society of Newspaper Editors and Time Warner, filed amicus briefs in support of the New Yorker...
...said, 'Yes, want to do this," says Barbara Graham, an assistant director of the University Library and native New Yorker, who earned a doctorate in library science from Harvard...