Word: yorkerism
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...OWNED A CANDY FACTORY, illustrated by The New Yorker Cartoonist James Stevenson and written by his eight-year-old son James Walker Stevenson (Little...
HENRY ROBINSON LUCE, the cofounder of TIME, probably had less personal publicity than any other American of comparable influence; he was widely unknown, and what was known about him was often wrong. Luce was particularly nettled by Wolcott Gibbs' brilliant parody profile in The New Yorker ("Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind"). Once, after Luce had visited a college class in contemporary biography, he exploded: "And who do you suppose the class was discussing? Me! And what do you suppose they were using as their text? That goddam article in The New Yorker! Is this thing going...
Over-Refined. This satire of contrasting intellectual and ethnic types is a model (if not a parody) of what is often described as New Yorker fiction: the nostalgic revelation of an overrefined sensibility that emerges preferably in an unusual setting. More important, Mosby is a cameo that illustrates the dangers of the reductive, aggressively critical intellect...
...Yorker cartoon, a horrified patient looks up from the operating table and asks the masked doctor, "How do I know you're not George Plimpton?" How, indeed? The author of Paper Lion and Out of My League has played as a bumbling quarterback for the Detroit Lions and performed as an inexpert pitcher in Yankee Stadium...
Criminal lawyers in the U.S. have already begun to request genetic studies of their clients by such specialists as Dr. Digamber S. Borgaonkar, head of the chromosome laboratory at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Just last week, a lawyer for Sean Farley, a 26-year-old "XYY" New Yorker charged with a rape-slaying, maneuvered to raise the issue of his client's genetic defect in court...