Word: yorkerism
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Gordon is the author of Synectics and has had his fiction published in the New Yorker and the Atlantic Monthly...
...complains about, but tries to bear in mind that many of the problems of the city are the price of its attraction to such numbers of people that they get in one another's way. The story was written by Richard Oulahan Jr., who, as a typical New Yorker, works in Manhattan and commutes home to Yonkers, but once the kids grow up (all seven of them) dreams of moving into The Plaza. The TIME bureaus of five cities contributed their thousands of words, and the story was researched by Dorothea Bourne, who in girlhood lived...
...Baffling and perverse and irreverent as it is," wrote Stanley Koven in the National Observer, "Oh Dad sweeps its audience up and gallops off on a kind of Marx Brothers excursion into the avant-grade." Calling it "a perverse comic nightmare" in the New Yorker, Edith Oliver stated. "Seldom can a production have more effectively carried out the ideas of a playwright than this...
...goes throughout the collection. Even the book's best story-a young A. & P. food checker watches three girls in bathing suits pad through the store, and quits his job impulsively when his boss reproaches them for their immodesty-is as forgettable as last week's New Yorker...
Much has been made of the man's shyness, and the temptation to turn him into Bernard Mergendeiler, his own soft-spoken hero, has been over-indulged. A tall, thin New Yorker, Jules Feiffer is both handsome and owlish; in his self-sketches he gives himself credit for more hair than he has. In Bernard, he allows himself more naivete; he is, after all, a satirist. His ear is sensitive to cliches and synopsized attitudes, which he manages to avoid successfully...