Word: yorkerism
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...covering the Los Angeles convention created "ugly chaos where nothing was visible except their own drawn, pale, bleating faces." complained The New Yorker last week. As the sessions wore on, the reporters "became increasingly clownish, aggressive, sarcastic and self-important. The harassment of the politicians reached an obscene pitch...
...current volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His poetry has been characterized by Dudley Fitts as "an intense and shaking kind of poetry, an art whose dissonances and wry dartings reflect a man awake in the nightmare of our day." His poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Audience, Paris Review, Saturday Review, and other periodicals...
...Elwyn Brooks) White, 60, lives on a farm in North Brooklin, Me. and watches the change of seasons and the lives of men. For more than 30 years a contributor to The New Yorker, and now in semiretirement, White is a perceptive essayist; his topics range from the tremor of a leaf in the afternoon sun to the malaise of modern...
...recent issue of The New Yorker, White took a cool and healthily skeptical look at man's central problem-war or peace. His question: Will disarmament make the world safer? His answer...
After two punishingly lean years, Wilder at last got a screenwriting job at Paramount. And at the whim of an executive producer, he was teamed with Writer Charles Brackett, onetime drama critic for The New Yorker. Suave Charlie Brackett and rough Billy Wilder clicked right away. Wilder spewed Niagaras of notions, and in this prodigious stream of consciousness, Brackett fished for usable ideas. Together they wrote 14 films without a single flop, and some of their movies were among the biggest hits (Ninotchka, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard) of the era. But in 1950 Brackett and Wilder broke up. Says...