Word: yorkerism
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...every child knows-and as readers of The New Yorker are regularly reminded-there lives, in that gloomy, crumbling mansion on the other side of any town, a happy family of unmitigated fiends. They are poor as cemetery mice, but honest as the night is long, and like true soldiers of the great Damnation Army, they darken their corner of town with all the vices that the Devil-with some help from a man named Charles Addams-can conceive...
...born in steady, suburban Westfield, N.J., attended Colgate and the University of Pennsylvania for a while until he hit on what seemed a better idea: professional art school. One day he sold a decorative sketch to The New Yorker, soon began to sell them cartoons too. Nowadays, reliable as anything, he does 40 to 50 cartoons a year for the magazine...
...means certain, to the thousands of Charles Addams admirers, just who (or what) Addams is. Some hold that he is just a man who has a macabre sense of humor, expressed in horribly funny drawings for The New Yorker. Others wonder uneasily how Addams came to know so much about the inhabitants of Satan's Little Acre, if he himself is not at least a weekend commuter (represented in the drawings, some think, by that disembodied head that sometimes grows on a rotting floorboard and stares at the observer like a fungus with a mind...
Last year St. Clair McKelway wrote a series of articles for the "New Yorker" about an elusive counterfeiter. Known as "Mr. 880" from the number of his Treasury Department file, this counterfeiter left a trail of disarmingly crude one-dollar bills across four boroughs of New York and the Staten Island Ferry, and led the Secret Service the longest chase in its history...
...last 14 years Brendan Gill has been writing for The New Yorker, contributing deft stories and profiles, well-considered book reviews, and items for "The Talk of the Town" section. At 36, he is starting later than a lot of this year's first novelists, but evidently not because he has wasted time. In The Trouble of One House, his storytelling method, an indirect, impressionistic one with something of the quality of Virginia Woolf's, takes him precisely where he wants...