Word: yorkerism
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...current scarcity of humor and fiction, which he sees as symptomatic of the times: "The problem is to find enough that fits our standards." Fiction can range widely from I.B. Singer's shtetl in Poland to the adulterous suburbia of John Cheever. But there is a recognizable New Yorker kind of story. It usually involves a middle-class woman who registers a sad little recognition after some incident in which not very much happened...
When abuse by length comes up, the name of Elizabeth Drew quickly surfaces. In two issues last fall, her coverage of the presidential campaign ran on each time through more than 25 New Yorker pages. Another article, threading its way through the usual glossy ads (as exemplified by the fox jacket for $6,795 at Bloomingdale's, the eight-day chronometer for $17,350 at Tiffany), stretched for 59 interminable New Yorker pages. Drew was allowed to indulge in that slackest kind of writing, the day-by-day journal. Anyone not intensely interested in politics could hardly be expected...
Drew, like many of the present generation of New Yorker reporters, writes pile-on sentences that mock the magazine's pride in being well written...
...Shawn than by others around the premises. Shawn ended the uncertainty by posting a two-line notice on the board saying he intended to stay on a while. The editorship is his "as long as he feels he can do the job," says George J. Green, The New Yorker's president. (Management so defers to Shawn that he doesn't even have an editorial budget, but spends what he wants.) How long does Shawn intend to stay on? Delicate ground. When asked, Shawn replies, "I just haven't made any decision. I'm still here today...
...general reader can be taken into account, just a teeny bit, without jeopardizing the integrity of the writer? Might he change the magazine drastically? Discussions usually end with writers reassuring one another that the magazine's habits and attitudes are now safely institutionalized. At heart, The New Yorker is very pleased with itself...