Word: yorkerism
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...Hamilton's first attempt at drama, but he had been writing snappy dialogue for 15 years as a cartoonist for The New Yorker. Though he lived in San Francisco part of that time, he tOOk aim at the Upwardly mobile everywhere, those who flit from trend to shining trend. Grand Central, like his cartoons, was supposed to be pointed and sophisticated, a Private Lives of the '70s. "Cartoons are very much like plays," he says. "A whole way of life is revealed in one sentence. In a play you just move this through time...
...Atlantic (circ. 340,000) has been slaloming in and out of the red for years and is plainly in need of an infusion of fresh capital. Marion Danielsen Campbell, 58, a New Yorker whose family has owned the magazine since 1938, spurned numerous corporate suitors while waiting for the right buyer to come along. Zuckerman had the requisite cash and professed no desire to tamper with the Atlantic 's venerable formula...
...Atlantic has not lost its calm, its intelligent voice or its reputation for literary excellence. Except for The New Yorker, it remains the foremost showcase for serious fiction and poetry in the U.S. Among recent contributors: John Earth, Bernard Malamud, John Updike, Joyce Carol Gates and John Gardner. The March issue features an essay by Archibald MacLeish, a memoir by Isaac Bashevis Singer and a poem by Robert Perm Warren...
...bones, simple springs for muscles and a fluid shock absorber for tendons. When the same surface they designed from their model was put down in Madison Square Garden, records fell and McMahon and Greene found themselves sought after by the unlikely technical journals, Sports Illustrated and The New Yorker, for cover stories...
...lady from Dubuque enters only when that overflowing cupboard has been emptied, after the guests have left and Jo and Sam have gone upstairs to bed. Her title is derived from Harold Ross's famous statement that he was not editing The New Yorker for "the little old lady in Dubuque." Albee uses it ironically, and his mysterious lady, played with ultimate sophistication by Irene Worth, is a figure of commanding presence. Coming down the next morning, Sam discovers that she and her black male companion (Earle Hyman) have taken charge, emptying ashtrays and removing glasses...