Word: yorkerism
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Pauline Kael, LL.D., film critic, The New Yorker. Like Godard with his guillotine lens, she writes with an often acerbic pen, cutting through the can of films that threaten to dehumanize us. William McC. Martin Jr., LL.D., former Federal Reserve Board chairman...
...some, no doubt, while watching the show, the daydream (nightdream?) actually is that of being Dick Cavett, L.E. Sissman suggested in a recent New Yorker...
...Paris-based Trib (circ. 121,000) is no mere letter from home. It is far different from the daily described by The New Yorker's Janet Planner as "the village newspaper" of the American expatriate colony in Paris, the favorite of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. Increasingly it serves to inform a widespread audience about both the U.S. and the world. It is read with respect in the power centers of Europe, where English is now the second language. Nineteen copies a day go to Peking, and the Kremlin also subscribes. Editor Murray "Buddy" Weiss...
MOONCHILDREN is itself an elegiac treatment of the charms--as well as the costs--of the fabled put-on (a form first given definition by Jacob Brackman in the pages of The New Yorker not so many years ago). If you ever went crazy for the Marx Brothers, memorized Soupy Sales routines, religiously watched I Love Lucy and Rocky and his Friends, fell in love with Holly Golightly, you have an instinctive feel for the form. But Weller's not only concerned with the surface jests. They're there to be enjoyed ("Hey, you decided what ya gonna do when...
...Named in honor of the late critic who contributed columns on "The Wayward Press" to The New Yorker for 18 years until his death in 1963, and who once observed that "freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those...