Word: yorkerism
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...some people, including Kahn, never learn. Kahn is now doing a piece for the New Yorker on David Durk, the New York cop recruiting at all the Big Name colleges. Last week, Kahn found himself lured back to Harvard once again to cover Durk in the Leverett House...
...reporter," But when Durk came over to us and chatted just before he began his recruiting pitch, my suspicions arose that "the reporter" was not just any reporter. Kahn finally revealed his identity to me and started telling me about his story on Durk for the New Yorker. The following day we had a longer conversation...
...APRIL of his senior year, Kahn got his first piece published in the New Yorker and during Easter vacation, the New Yorker let him report on a trial basis. They hired him and he has been a regular staff correspondent ever since. During World War H, Kahn was in the Army for four and a half years. He did about 50 pieces for the New Yorker in a series called "The Army Life," and, for his last two Army years, did public relations work in which he experienced "the difficulty of wearing two hats...
Kahn said he considers obscenities "a new language, not to be interpreted literally all the time. It's a kind of daring, kind of fashionable. It has a cathartic effect." He spoke about the issue of letting four-letter words appear in print: "The New Yorker -we've held the line." Kahn said the only time he used an obscenity was to describe the Widener posts which Yalies painted "FUCK HARVARD." "I was trying to lapse into contemporary rhetoric, too," he admitted, but plans not to use any obscenities in his future writings...
...Louise Bogan, 72, distinguished American lyric poet; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. "I have no fancy ideas about poetry," Miss Bogan once remarked. "It is something you have to work hard at." And work she did, from 1931 to 1969 as writer and poetry critic for The New Yorker, and as the author of six volumes of verse. A consummate lyricist, she wrote with forceful emotion and maturity, as in "Juan's Song...