Word: yorkerism
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...Manhattan last week: "I expect she'll come back here and carry on life as it was. After all, her children are settled here, she has her life here." Some friends think that she may pursue her interest in landmarks preservation; Critic Brendan Gill of The New Yorker, for which Jackie has already written one small article, feels that she has promise as a writer. Yet richer than before, eligible once again, she is sure to be hounded and watched and speculated upon anew. And also more vulnerable: for the first time in 15 years she will be without...
...been lucky. A couple of years ago, an academician named Charles Holmes produced a solemn literary biography called The Clocks of Columbus, in which he discerned, for instance, three levels of language in the 2,500 words of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Now comes New Yorker Writer Burton Bernstein with a drink-by-drink analysis, or bibulography, of the humorist's sometimes agonizing life...
...here: the bow-and-arrow accident that cost him one eye at the age of six, the loopy Columbus boyhood, the insuperable Midwestern chauvinism, the sexual shyness, the days as a code clerk at the U.S. embassy in Paris, the two dozen straight rejections by The New Yorker, the friendships with Playwright-Actor Elliot Nugent and E.B. White, the odd adversary relationship with New Yorker Editor Harold Ross...
...York: The big play is being given to the Max Ernst exhibit at the Guggenheim. This week's New Yorker quoted the 83-year-old Ernst as saying; "My painting comes straight from my imagination, and that is distinct from the dreams." Those who like to label people call him a surrealist...
...events in the greater Boston area, this student, while on his way to Lamont to renew The History of Art for the fifth time that day, lapses into reveries of world-premier movies, a new production of La Traviata, and cocktail parties at which members of both the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books will be present. And, oh, he thinks as he asks "When does this book circulate for the vacation?" there is to be a showing of rarely-seen Durer prints at a nearby museum (considered by most to be one of the finest...