Word: yorkerism
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...Yorker Album of Drawings
...HAVE TO CONFESS to a certain amount of bias on my part as I begin to review this book. Except for my parents, there was no greater force on my formative years than the cartoons in the New Yorker...
...particular view of the world: that people are basically crazy, and that the only way to survive at all is through laughter. This philosophy has been carried through the centuries by the likes of Chaucer, Sheridan, Twain and Beerbohm. For the past fifty years the cartoonists in The New Yorker have espoused it, and have presented our frailties to us with wit, grace and, most of all, total disrespect for the supposed importance of our lives...
...cartoonists in this volume would be boring and futile. They are all funny. My personal favorites are Price, Koren, and of course, Thurber. Too much has been written on Thurber to make it worth going into him here, but most of his great work was done for The New Yorker, and it fits better into this collection than it does into Thurber anthologies. I like Price's angular bodies and Koren's furry ones; my roommate likes Booth's cats; and Hilton Kramer thinks Steinberg is the only decent one among them...
...last month Robert Rubin, a transplanted New Yorker living in Newport, Ore., signed over the four houses and ten-acre farm he owned to a friend and then went away. His neighbor Sue Greenberg put her name to a notarized document assigning her two children to a friend's care, and then she went away too. In Eugene, Surveyor Gerald Anderson quit his job and disappeared, as did Dan Staggs, a nurseryman from nearby Springfield. In all, somewhere between 21 and 26 Oregonians simply up and left everything they had after attending a recruiting meeting of a baffling...