Word: yorkerism
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JAMES THURBER used to call his New Yorker office on his day off, asking for Mr. Thurber. He would say he was greatly relieved to discover that Thurber was not in, and that therefore he must be where he thought he was. This schizoid strain runs through A Thurber Carnival, a set of Thurber skits and short stories currently in production...
...WORKS had regularly sent in their news crews for the quick "in-out," as had a handful of this country's standard, liberal newspapers. Another handful of "your basic liberal magazines"--The Progressive, Nation, New Republic, Ramparts, The New Yorker--were keeping their eyes, or at least those of their free-lance stringers, on what was going on in the mountain hollows that line the path of a stream called Clover Fork in Eastern Kentucky...
...YORKER ALBUM OF DRAWINGS
...Yorker cartoon is a rectangle entirely surrounded by laughter. In the fiftieth anniversary collection, the occupants of those rectangles gather like relatives at a spirited family reunion...
...through five decades, they have never neglected their primary obligation: to nourish the comic spirit, to make the risible visible in times of war and economic distress and social chaos. As this warm, hilarious collection demonstrates, despite the changing boundaries of artistic license and comic liberty, The New Yorker cartoonist has always known exactly where to draw the line...