Word: yorkerism
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...different as possible from the one before. Author Ludwig Bemelmans works passionately in the opposite direction: he has grown prosperous and popular by writing the same book over & over again. It was gay and lively stuff 15 years ago when it was appearing in Story and The New Yorker; it still seems gay and lively today...
...tribute to Mike Romanoff that some of his friends have now elevated him to the rank of king, and that anyone is willing to lend him anything like $25,000. Twenty years ago, the New Yorker published a five-part Profile on him because he then had the dubious honor of being the most fabulous and incredible impostor alive, with the added distinction of having just been deported to France for allegedly defrauding some tourists. But even as far back as 1932, the facts of his life had been so liberally larded with fiction, frequently with his aid and consent...
...Brendan Gill, The New Yorker: "The tone of Witness jars . . . [Chambers] believes now, as he did the first time, that there is only one way to save mankind . . . He believes now, as he did then, that opposites are the only alternatives. Everything is either/or...
...Collegiate Dictionary at the rate of 50 pages a day. When she had finished the dictionary once, she started all over again, making long lists of words she was still not sure of. Then, just to make certain, she began combing Mademoiselle, the Atlantic Monthly, TIME and The New Yorker for unusual words...
...biographical mountain climbers, the figure of Winston Churchill rears up as formidably as Mt. Everest. One reason is that the last word on Churchill is usually by Churchill. Wisely hugging the foothills of anecdote, Robert Lewis Taylor, the New Yorker profiler, has put together a crisp, readable "informal study of greatness." Unable to wangle a single interview with the "old man in a hurry," he nonetheless brings the old showman onstage for every star turn of his dramatic life...