Word: yorkerism
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Aware of the trend, others have invaded what was once the domain of Cadillac (basic Detroit price for a four-door sedan with standard equipment: $5,247), Lincoln ($6,292) and the Chrysler Imperial ($5,795). The Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight, the Buick Electra 225 and the Chrysler New Yorker, top models in traditional medium-price lines, have evolved into luxury cars and penetrated the $4,000 mark. A growing array of luxury sports cars has also entered the field. Copying the early success of Ford's Thunderbird ($4,486 for a two-door hardtop), Detroit has made such entries...
...creator's purpose. And "motley" nicely describes the collage assembled beneath this arrogantly stark title. A short-story writer, a poet and a novelist, Updike here exhibits the hand that also fabricates nonfiction on demand: book reviews, parodies, autobiographical snippets, some of his anonymous contributions to The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" department, all of it reprinted. The assortment casts neither light nor doubt on Updike's competence, and many of the entries are so minor as to defy measurement. But to someone who did not see it in The New Yorker...
...born Saul Steinberg studied psychology at the University of Bucharest and architecture at the University of Milan, was a U.S. Navy officer in World War II, and has gained an international reputation for his vividly imaginative drawings. He is best known, perhaps, for his regular contributions to The New Yorker, has also been published in LIFE, FORTUNE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and Harper's Bazaar. In his deceptively simple linear technique, he gives life to Paul Klee's definition of drawing as the art of taking a line for a walk...
Bernays' involvement in the fray began in, the fall of 1962, when he attended a meeting of Organization Ten, a Brattle Street area property-owners association. At this time he was a newly emigrated New Yorker, come to Cambridge to write his memoirs after a long, succesful caroor in public relations. One might say that the 73-year-old Bernays is to public relations what his uncle is to psychoanalysis. His uncle's initials are S.F. and he lived in Vienna...
Probably the happiest of the subscribers to Operation Match were the Harvard student who received 69 names and the New Yorker who received, at last count, 230. The Harvard student who received over 200 cannot be found; informed sources claim he is entirely mythical...