Word: yorkerism
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...century Massachusetts farmhouse. Both the artist and the man have discovered the vital irritants and ironic satisfactions of the familiar and traditional. His body of work grows with impressive regularity. He is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and a fixed star at The New Yorker. Yet many critics have called him irrelevant, accused him of having nothing to say and proffered the supreme lefthanded compliment, "uncommonly readable...
Above all, The Coup exhibits Updike's boundless sense of play. It allows him to entertain serious questions, without the turgidness of writers who solemnly subcribe to the high-moral fiber diet. Updike, a former "Talk of the Town" writer for The New Yorker, now moves out to cover the Talk of the World...
...dean also recalled his celebrated comment in last month's New Yorker, when he asserted that "Harvard is mine." Rosovsky reminded students that "You are here for four years, I am here for life, and the institution is here forever...
...everyone is into long novels, so you could get your uncle a book he could just look at, like The New Yorker 25th Anniversary Album which contains, among other things, lots of funny cartoons. Not only that, but think of the snob appeal this nicely done book will have when it finally comes to the Elephant's graveyard of Christmas book gifts--the coffee table...
...belongs, in the arms of a beautiful poodle. Which is all right: the hero is fond of putting on the dog. In Tiffky Doofky (Farrar. Straus & Giroux; $7.95), William Steig shows why his juvenile following equals the Pied Piper's, and how four decades as a New Yorker cartoonist have taught him exactly where and how to pull his punch lines...