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While some of the sparkle of the Harold Ross days has gone, The New Yorker [May 16] is still the most civilized magazine published in this country...
...true that there are no Benchleys or Parkers to be found now in its pages, that Charles Addams is an embarrassing relic, and that the fiction is frequently all-of-a-kind. But the basic source of strength remains. The New Yorker is selective, personal, heterogeneous, stylistically original...
...~sed on adultery by intellectuals. Unlike French farce, it is essentially smug. You have to be able to live in Westport. You know all about Freud. You have to be able to af ford the slightly Bohemian reconverted barn in which the artist for The New Yorker, that safe citizen of our times, works...
Humorist Thurber tends to blame The New Yorker's drawbacks on the changing tastes of the times: "The New Yorker has represented every damn decade in which it's been published. In the '20s, humorists were a dime a dozen; everyone was drinking champagne and cutting up neckties. In 1960, everyone's talking too much, reminiscing about his childhood. You can't get humor into the magazine if people aren't writing...
...Yorker now has 97 subscribers in Dubuque, including several old ladies...