Word: yorkerism
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...THIS time last year, I was shuttling between agony and ecstasy. I remain a loyal New Yorker and Yankee fan, but 20 adult years in the shadow of Fenway park have engendered a strong affection for the Sox. The Mets, as an expansion team, are nothing to me because rooting is forged in the fires of youth, and the Mets didn't exist during my stickball days in Queens. So I cast my lot with my adopted Boston and died with the Sox. I will never ever in all the rest of my life be able to think about Game...
...McInerney made it faster, with less talent, by being in the right place at the right time. He also had a personal life that ran parallel to his fiction. Bright Lights caused a small stir by caricaturing a magazine that resembled the author's former employer, The New Yorker. The novel's more capitalizing feature was that its hero and his pals were regulars at Odeon and other lower- Manhattan spots that were trendy at the time. The book was witty and well paced, yet neon and clouds of expensive white powder tended to obscure the fact that the work...
...Edgar Hoover liked his FBI agents to have degrees in law, accounting or both, but it now turns out that the bureau could have used some Ph.D.s in English. Both The New Yorker and The Nation magazines last week documented nearly half a century of FBI surveillance of more than 100 prominent American writers, including six Nobel laureates (Sinclair Lewis, Pearl Buck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill and John Steinbeck). The gumshoe lit crit was sometimes comically inept. FBI files, for example, described the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay as possibly subversive because she used the "analogy...
...want something fun, something witty and easy to read like the New Yorker, as opposed to something deep or philosophical," said Michael S. Krivan '90, the Currier House resident who is organizing the journal...
...group of quadlings have their way, Harvard's Quad will be the subject of a New Yorker-like journal which they hope will promote Quad unity...