Word: yorkerism
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...PROVINCIAL visiting The City is likely buy his Cue or New Yorker find "what's happening", eat at a few restaurants, see some shows, look at hieroglyphics in the Metropolitan Museum and return to his rustic existence with some small change and a reinforced conviction that New York is indeed nice to visit but no place to live. This unfortunate pattern results largely from the fact that what is most interesting in New York is often most difficult to find, and the knack of living both well and at the same time inexpensively in this most varied and wealthy...
...novel fizzled, and Thurber never tried another. But when he came back this time, it was to New York. He became a reporter for the Evening Post, and sent funny prose to a feeble new weekly, The New Yorker, which sent it back. But the magazine accepted the 21st piece Thurber submitted, and after this, things moved fast. Harold Ross, the inspired Neanderthal who edited by the touch system, promptly appointed Thurber the office Jesus (unofficial title: managing editor). Things fell apart, the center did not hold, and eventually Ross desanctified Thurber: "I guess you're a writer...
Author Calisher, whose elliptical New Yorker stories have brought her a small but fanatical following, has labored for six years on this first novel. Unhappily, she has brought forth a mousse: a gelatinous concoction inflated with whipped-in wind. The theme is "false entry into another person's life, into his present by means of his past." Simply, this means one man's pretense that certain things happened to him that actually happened to someone else. The pertinence of the theme, symbolically or literally, is not made apparent, as the hero successively changes his name, testifies...
Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger. The guru of The New Yorker abstracts the two stories from his cycle-in-progress on the Glass family; the result is a masterly double novella, strongly flavored with both eccentricity and genius, of a girl's brush with religious obsession...
...last month, Board Chairman Stephen Kroll said, "The whole field of college humor magazines is in such bad shape that we felt a new direction was needed.... The old jokes that made collegians laugh years ago are no longer funny, and a college magazine that merely impersonates the New Yorker has little future...