Word: yorkerism
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...have long counted on inflation, quick depreciation write-offs and big revenues from full occupancy to keep them going. New York Syndicator Louis J. Glickman was recently pushed out of his own company when his creditors closed in and forced its reorganization. Sidney Schwartz, a fast-stepping New Yorker who in five years promoted 23 syndicates from Oregon to Florida, got caught by the softening market; he has been accused by the New York State attorney general of juggling his funds to keep his syndicates going, was barred from selling securities in New York. The troubles of the syndicators have...
Reassessing the trial of Adolf Eichmann in her own original fashion (in a book first serialized in The New Yorker), Political Philosopher Hannah Arendt cites these and other facts and concludes that Eichmann's version of his role in the murder of 5,000,000 Jews was closer to the truth than the Israeli prosecution's. He was not the mastermind, she is convinced. He was simply a cog in the machinery of murder...
Judges for this year's contest were poetess Adrienne Rich, author Theodore H. White, and New Yorker critic Brendan Gill...
...Last week Baldwin was in California, hopping from city to city to talk to college and high school students. Thrust from typewriter to rostrum by virtue of a widely acclaimed, blistering essay in The New Yorker (TIME, Jan. 4), now in book form under the title The Fire Next Time, Baldwin spared his audiences nothing. He spoke not for himself but for all Negroes to all whites. "I hoed a lot of cotton," he said. "I laid a lot of track. I dammed a lot of rivers. You wouldn't have had this country if it hadn't been...
...writer who can breathe fictional health into a story as sick as this one must be credited with a minor miracle. Genuine magicianship may be so conceded to Julian Gloag, a suitably baleful-looking young (32) New Yorker, ten years out of school (at Britain's Rugby and Cambridge), who has made a memorable fable about his seven motherless moppets. He has succeeded, partly by attention to details that worry the practical reader, such as how did they get the money? Little Jiminee, a talented penman, forged endorsements on mother's mysterious but regular checks, and Hubert cashed...