Word: yorkerism
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...Liberal” camp, where nearly half of Harvard claims inclusion, are many genuine liberals of the College Democrats variety, with their John Kerry bumper stickers, their aging “Living Wage Now!” buttons, and their carefully cultivated subscriptions to the New Yorker. But most of the others are liberal pretenders; moderates by trade, they reside in political limbo, non-committal to either the paradise above them or the hell below them. But since it’s indisputably “cooler” to be a liberal in college, so many confused moderate souls...
Erdmann’s plans to ship to Kosovo were disrupted when he received a phone call from Richard N. Haass, who had just become the director of policy planning in the State Department, as The New Yorker described in a recent feature...
...practice, thinking historically was nearly impossible on the ground, Erdmann told The New Yorker. “There’ve been times when I don’t even know what I did 48 hours before. I try. It’s like a test for myself. Can I remember what I did the day before? I eventually can, but it takes effort. That’s not a good situation. You should be able to remember what you did in the last twenty-four hours,” he said from Iraq...
...Halloween night of that year, Kaiju—which means “mysterious beast” in Japanese—debuted at Boston’s Revolving Museum. Since then, its reputation has grown exponentially—publications as varied as the The New Yorker, the Comic Buyer’s Guide and The Boston Phoenix have run features on the trend. Despite the attention, the group stays true to its Boston roots, keeping their home base and most of their shows in the area...
...drawing pictures of Horton the Elephant. I found myself drawing pictures of Lindbergh the Ostrich." Annoyed by the controversial air hero Charles Lindbergh and the blinkered isolationism he was seductively selling to America, Geisel became the editorial cartoonist for PM, the left-wing New York City newspaper. "The New Yorker dismissed us as 'a bunch of young fogies,' " Ted later wrote. "I think we were a bunch of honest but slightly cockeyed crusaders, and I still have prideful memories of working alongside ... dozens of other hard-working souls who helped Marshall Field lose $30 million backing a truly unique newspaper...