Word: yorkerism
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...most succinct definition of fine English prose remains Jonathan Swift's "proper words in proper places." For 40 years the proper place was the pages of The New Yorker, where E.B. White's graceful perceptions and polished ironies became touchstones of style...
...York City life. It presents a tiny bit of information, intentionally limited in scope, on what ought to be at least one very long chapter in the book of New York: welfare and the Department of Social Services. Susan Sheehan, a writer on the staff of the New Yorker, where this work first appeared in a slightly different form, has written a profile of a Puerto Rican welfare mother, describing for 95 pages the daily comings and goings of Carmen Santana and her family...
...compared the literature they hold in high esteem with "the stuff you read in The New Yorker." He said the prevailing literary opinion is "tradition bound," concerned more with content and theme than style, technique, and innovative ways of telling the story...
Jane H. Shore, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English, said last week that the New Yorker characterization is "absolutely not true." She added that several faculty members are doing "very experimental work" and no "really good teacher" would "steer a student in one particular way of writing...
Students have "no way to do writing here without getting into a rough, intense course," Polonsky said, adding that students "go into it seriously or not at all." He said "informal workshops for people who just like to write but don't intend to publish for The New Yorker" are needed because at present those people do not have "much opportunity to get feedback" on their creative work...