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Following a faculty vote which will enable a new undergraduate publication, The Gargoyle, to enter competition with the Lampoon, the Lampoon announced yesterday that it will go into competition with The New Yorker...
Jack Winter '62, president of the Lampoon, reported yesterday that an amalgamation between his organization and Street and Smith-Conde Nast, publishers of Madamolselle, Vogue, Glamour, Astonishing Science Fiction and cross-word-puzzle books, will place a new national Lampoon into the New Yorker field by September...
...opinion on whether all this is good or phony. Says a National Council of Churches official: "One of the things every minister dreads is preaching a Mother's Day sermon. Those with courage don't." Some women would just as soon forget the whole thing. Says New Yorker Betty Carter, mother of five: "Hell, I feel like Mother India all year round. I see no point in being reminded of it once a year." Recalls Actress Florence Eldridge (Mrs. Fredric March): "When my two children were young, I had to sit at the table with a crown...
...factory for which he was working got a contract from a branch of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. in Springfield, Ill. Giving up glassmaking a year later, he went on to a stint as a commercial artist (he did ads for Peck & Peck and spot drawings for The New Yorker), a couple of Guggenheim fellowships, posts at various U.S. colleges and universities. His serious paintings and drawings were from the start shrill cries of pain. There are two kinds of artist, says Lebrun: some who follow the classical duty of putting order into an event, and "others who bring their...
Like most of The New Yorker's laughing boys, Thurber can be insufferably chatty ("This may not give you the creeps but it gives me the creeps"), and he suffers from the peculiar delusion that anything written about a cocktail party is bound to be funny. He also lapses frequently into college humor (speaking of nervous ailments: "Have you heard of the roofer who got shingles from Sears, Roebuck?"), and sesquipedalian prose ("Amidst verbal wonders and linguistic portents the stultification of English was caused by the decapitation of words as well as by unwonted lengthening"). But at his best...