Word: yorkerism
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...that Abu Simbel is worth even $36 million. They argue that the temple has little artistic value and that money could be better spent preserving monuments less extensively catalogued. But the skeptics form a small minority. Drew Middleton, one of many recent last-chance visitors, observed in The New Yorker that "if either the pyramids or Abu Simbel had to be flooded ... one would flood the Pyramids...
...schools, youth and clubs were added. The composing room got the lead out, changed the body type and headline style. The paper fairly dripped with zeal. Says one ex-staffer: "It was like being in on the early days of Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch, TIME or The New Yorker. We all felt that we were part of a mission." The pages blossomed with news from the Star-Tribune's Washington bureau; there was a weekend wrap-up section, features on abortions, Viet Nam, the county fair and Black Muslims. Three editions blanketed the Valley every day. But circulation...
...than ninety pages and includes nineteen different authors, among them several professionals: Brother Antoninus, William Burroughs, and Norman Mailer. Their names may sell copies and most the magazine's prestige, but The Advocate is--or ought to be--Harvard's literary magazine, not a rough draft of The New Yorker. This issue is good enough to stand by itself, without professionals...
...wife I now have, Charlayne." For whatever reason, they did not return to pick up the Cleveland license. They were instead married on June 8 in Detroit. After Charlayne's graduation, they moved to New York, took a Greenwich Village apartment. Charlayne, an editorial assistant for The New Yorker magazine, is expecting a baby in December...
...more or less polite comedians-not all the new faces in the field, but many of them. Charlie Manna, for one, is a typical new comedian on the nightclub circuit whose material never offends either the intelligence or the sensibilities of his audiences. He is a Bronx-accented New Yorker now working in the Catskills. His relaxed monologues are zany but sub-psychotic, riddled with implausibilities but not with disease...