Word: yorkerism
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...Yorker carried a memorable cartoon showing two coal miners looking up goggle-eyed, and one exclaiming: "For gosh sakes. here comes Mrs. Roosevelt." It was hilarious if only because it was so true: soon afterward Eleanor Roosevelt indeed descended into a coal mine. In those days she had not yet become controversial: to her critics she was a gadabout and do-gooder, to her admirers she was a dedicated friend of the oppressed, and to everyone, she was a marvel of omnipresent vitality. Later she aroused stronger passions; she was both hated and loved. But she outlived most...
...live by writing and curiosity." A man to be found asking penetrating questions in untraveled places, Alastair Reid, the individual who so characterizes himself, is a poet and a European correspondent for the New Yorker. That this laconic and bushy-browed Scotsman has a lively curiosity is evident from first meeting; that he has been quick to follow its lead is implicit in his present affiliation with Spanish affairs...
Apart from his New Yorker articles, which, together with additions, will soon be published in book form, Reid has published four volumes of verse. He is presently at work on a novel; but this he declined to discuss, with a chuckle and an admonition that such was "bad luck...
...Peter Kiewit (pronounced key-wit), 62, a spare, taciturn man who has spent all his working life in the construction business. Until just a few weeks ago, Kiewit's interest in the Omaha paper was simply that of a subscriber. But when he read an article about New Yorker Sam Newhouse's interest in Omaha, Kiewit decided to try to keep the outsider out. He was well-equipped...
Salinger was master of the New Yorker style, but in the last decade he has refined his writing to nuance-and-mannerism studies, which, while brilliant and compelling, define their own limits. Much of his stunning narrowness follows from this technique, and his very peculiar characterizations are the fruit of that same invention...