Word: yorkerism
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...self-satisfied tone of voice, makes what are supposedly 'cute' remarks but are in fact a series of solid lead balloons, so tiresome that soon no one listens at all. You have a great opportunity to revivify the whole scene and provoke once again the comment in the New Yorker 'the best in the business.' All it takes is two qualities supposedly often present at Harvard: independent thinking and the courage to act upon it if it points away from the current path of the majority. Let's get a little Harvard into the Harvard Band! Jack Barnaby '32 Squash...
...Trotskyite who opposed World War II and singlehanded ran the pacifist-leftist journal Politics (1944-49). Next he declared himself a "conservative anarchist" and in his last major political stand supported the antiwar movement of the '60s. A fastidious critic, he graced Esquire and The New Yorker with sometimes highhanded pronouncements about movies, books and overblown fads. Observing in a 1960 essay that "the Lords of Kitsch sell culture to the masses," Macdonald famously defined and deflated the tastes of Masscult and Midcult...
When he is not cartooning for The New Yorker, James Stevenson draws for children: nine of his own, plus the thousands of Stevensonians who fell in love with more than a dozen previous books. For The Baby Uggs Are Hatching (Greenwillow; $9.50) he adds a dash of Lear to Jack Prelutsky's hilarious nonsense verse about the Sneepies ("... lying in a pile,/ are still and silent all the while./ They stay beside my underwear .../ I wonder why they like it there."), the Smasheroo, the Dreary Dreeze, the Flotterzott and other beings unmentioned by zoologists but familiar to any child...
...famous near martyr who passes himself off as an Israeli pushing on a confused public a book of arrant nonsense. More saddening still because Jacobo Timerman's The Longest War, Israel on Lebanon was brought to light by two of the most respected institution in American letters The New Yorker and the publishing house of Alfred A Knopf...
...rushed to press, first in The New Yorker (the magazine which is so circumspect it begins its baseball coverage in Novembers--seven weeks ago and now in book form (Knopf even managed to squeeze in a three-and-a-half page postscript dated September 21 on the refugee camp massacre in a frenzy of greedy haste. One expects this sort of thing from the cheapest of publishers, those who catalogue the incineration of every organ of every boy of the men who died in the Iranian hostage rescue mission for consumption three days after the fact. Not two firms with...