Word: yorkerism
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...sleighbells. As the undergraduate went through the motions of buying presents in Boston's Washington Street maelstrom, watching his thinning wallet and putting a warm cover on his thinning hair, he stayed somehow apart from the festive momentum that was gathering speed in the newspaper ads and New Yorker cartoons...
...specter of World War III was conjured up by writer after writer on the atomic bomb, notably John Hersey in the laconic, harrowing Hiroshima; and also by the New Yorker's E. B. White in his earnest tract, The Wild Flag; by Sumner Welles in Where Are We Heading?; by a long series of pro-or anti-Soviet special pleaders. Probably the standout pro-Soviet pleading of the year was Soviet Politics by Williams Professor Frederick L. Schuman. The most widely read (75,000 copies) attack: I Chose Freedom, by disillusioned Soviet functionary Victor Kravchenko...
...what the nonliterary citizen would call a raw book and decidedly not for the high-school youngsters. One of its six short stories had 20 more or less detailed descriptions of sexual intercourse. But Memoirs was no flippant bedroom farce. Fat, fiftyish Author Wilson, book critic for the New Yorker, had written it as a critique of modern manners and morals. Most reviewers agreed that it was an honest and intelligent work; many a reviewer and reader found it labored, obscure, pedantic and depressing. By all the form charts it should have been forgotten except perhaps in the more waspish...
...promise in Radcliffe's new literary magazine. That "Radditudes" is not a finished publication from either a literary or makeup point of view is inevitable in any first volume by an amateur group. And it is also not surprising that an unmistakable though possibly unconscious grasping for the "New Yorker" short story style is evident in some of the contributions. But "Radditudes" is making a fine effort towards providing the Cambridge scene with an undergraduate magazine that is neither flippant nor academic--a task that Harvard seems unwilling to tackle...
...Yorker's" neurotic hand is heavy in Jean Janis' "Kate," a tale of a sadly unadjusted Radcliffe Freshman. Just why Kate is so much like a fish out of water never becomes clear, and since Miss Janis cannot say anthing with the dexterity of the average "New Yorker" contributor, her effort is not good reading. And the less said about the poetry the better, except that the Radcliffe and Harvard bards might find some truth still lingering in the old advice about inexperienced writers sticking close to the realms of their own experience...