Word: yorkerism
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...film's comic tone, however, is as deadpan as that of a New Yorker profile. The interested-disinterested camera follows its subject for a few days, records snippets of conversation, refuses to strain for socko punch lines or an apocalyptic climax. As an ironic True Confessions, the film may satisfy the benign curiosity millions of people seem to have about Woody Allen. The star of cover stories in virtually every major magazine has now written and directed his own. It is the story of his life and his films, a defense of a public artist's need...
Similarly, the study portrays the U.S. Episcopal Church-and the Anglican Church of Canada-the way a New Yorker cartoon might, as denominations held together less by shared belief than by cultural and class ties. According to the study, Episcopalians tend to have little interest in the Bible as a source of specific moral guidance. Parishioners' approval of a minister depends not so much on his faith as on how well he gets along with people, with heavy emphasis on humility and "lack of ego-strength." This, says the book, seems to "favor incompetence...
...essays-the writing, even the topics-show that the blinders protecting the fastest horse in the New Yorker stable are still in place, the blinders guarding him from anything bitterly dark or blindingly light, anything that might make him rear up and head off the track. His is a Roone Arledge view of the world; should one have the luck to visit bobsledding one week, take in cliff-diving in Acapulco the next, and perhaps watch the pounding of the Firecracker 500, then one will have seen sport. McPhee's corollary: the variety of human experience means simply that...
Sometimes, as in the case of Janet Flanner, this urge to self-censorship makes for a rather opaque style of revelation. Writing for a half-century under the pen-name of "Genet" for The New Yorker, Flanner generally focused her discriminating eye upon the social and artistic elite of Europe. Her work often recalls the advocacy for taste and manners so prominent in the pioneering efforts of Addison and Steele; at other times, Flanner inserts herself neatly into the turmoil of the age, observing a bankrupt Berlin of 1931 or reflecting upon the fate of Warsaw some time after...
...staff writer for The New Yorker, McPhee has straddled two worlds in scores of articles and more than a dozen books. Best known for his non-fiction study of Alaska, Coming into the Country, McPhee has also tangled with long, discursive pieces about the higher levels of tennis, the craft of bark canoe builders, missing links in the technology of nuclear waste disposal. McPhee is an adventurer of information, a stickler for the facts. He has written a book about oranges, a most studious and exacting survey that would do justice to Montaigne in its recognition of fundamental cravings. Typically...