Word: yorkerism
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...chooses not to whisper his own views into the President's ear. "The cause I push is a kind of elevated common sense," he says. Goldwin prefers to act as distiller and conveyor of the ideas of others. He has good credentials for that role. A native New Yorker who fought with the U.S. Cavalry in World War II, Goldwin graduated in 1950 from St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. He spent the next nine years editing reading materials and training discussion leaders at the American Foundation for Continuing Education...
Boring and pretentious. Where is Tom Wolfe now that we need him? Ten years ago, as The New Yorker ever so quietly celebrated its 40th birthday. Wolfe uncorked a two-part profile of the magazine that sent its editors and friends off muttering about hatchet jobs and "parajournalism." Wolfe's article ran in New York magazine, then the Sunday supplement of The New York Herald-Tribune. His first installment was headlined "Tiny Mummies! The True Story of The Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of The Walking Dead!" It was a great piece, nasty and accurate. "The Ruler of 43rd...
Omerta! Sealed lips! Sealed lips, ladies and gentlemen! Our Thing! We are editing The New Yorker magazine...
...great fun with all that snobbery, and in the second installment "Lost in the Whichy Thicket," he talked about The New Yorker writing style...
Terrific stuff, and The New Yorker brass reacted with the moaning outrage of water buffalos stabbed from behind. They called Wolfe an idiot. He was a lightweight, they were the venerable custodians of an institution. They wouldn't tinker with their magazine, regardless of such attacks, and in the ten years since his piece, the stodgy complacency has remained unchanged. It is splashed all over the anniversary issue. So happy 50th, New Yorker. R.I.P...