Word: yorkerism
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...newspaper-hungry New Yorker, I deplore the strike as much as anyone. And I would hesitate to accuse TIME of any bias in its coverage of the "disgraceful strike," where the "intransigence" of Bertram Powers has "caused the breakdown of negotiations...
...Yorker, in a parody of the Saturday Evening Post's "inside" story of the Cuban crisis signed by L. L. Case, ended up spoofing the Administration more. The New Yorker traces "The Inner Inside Story of the Canadian Crisis'' as told by "Stewart Dawk and Charles Hove." The Administration has evidence that an innocent-looking ski lodge in the Laurentians "was in fact a 'snow cannon' emplacement capable of pelting New York and New England with more than 150,000 deadly, hardpacked snowballs!" The newly elected junior Senator from Massachusetts eloquently argues the "soft line...
...Glass stories have all been reprinted from the New Yorker in book form, and Salinger, on the dust jacket of the latest offering, Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters (1955) and Seymour: an Introduction (1959), promises several more, which will no doubt be well received by the growing Salinger cult. The heroes of the saga, as everyone knows, are or were seven children (two are now dead), the offspring of a Jewish-Irish vaudeville team. Super-intellegent from birth, they started in rotation on a radio quiz kid show. Grown-ups now, they are spread far afield: Buddy teachers English...
...turgid, you-see-writing-in-the-making style, filled with such interjections as "I'm suddenly time-conscious. It's not yet midnight, and I'm playing with the idea of sliding to the floor and writing this from a supine position." The first story is an average New Yorker slice of life effort, the second a pretentious and unsuccessful attempt to play Gertrude Stein. Yet the book has been on the best seller list for some time...
...West's most chilling story, a man is arrested for hitchhiking in the town of Chanceyville, Ga. The poor fellow has two strikes against him: not only is he a New Yorker with an Italian name; he is an abstract artist to boot. When he can not pay the fine, the beefy sheriff orders him to draw obscene nudes. When he finishes, the sheriff stops drooling, smashes all the bones in the artist's hands and knocks him senseless. Says the indignant sheriff: "That'll teach them bastards to mess around Chanceyville gals...