Word: yorkerisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Nixon was upset by Nelson Rockefeller's candidacy-or the New Yorker's unexpected victory in Massachusetts-he had no trouble at all hiding his annoyance. Not only did he formally welcome Rockefeller's entry into the race-he even seemed genuinely pleased to have an open opponent at last. Choosing his words carefully, he jabbed at Rockefeller only indirectly for his refusal to enter the primaries: "I think the people ought to have something to say about the selection of a nominee. Others, of course, may have a different viewpoint and decide not to enter...
...passion for detail which is best exhibited in the "Reporter at Large" pieces he writes about foreign countries for the New Yorker. In a three-part study of Micronesia in June, 1966, Kahn carefully recounts the history of that island's chain of conquerors, and describes the conditions of the trust arrangement set up by the United Nations after World...
...expected to treat the University in its own terms, through the words and acts of its own people, with little regard for the University as a social force. He treated David Rockefeller, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, in the same limited way in a two-part New Yorker profile in 1965. Kahn quoted President Pusey, Rockefeller's banking associates and several statesmen on Rockefeller, and Rockefeller himself on the value of hard work. He did not even approach the question of what it means to be David Rockefeller, billionaire banker. But if all the New Yorker's readers...
...Harvard undergraduate, he thought about going to law school. But as a senior he sold a short story to Coronet for $90, and, he recalls, "that decided me. I got an agent immediately, and later in my senior year I sold a short piece to the New Yorker." Three days after commencement, he was a member of their staff...
Except for the four years he served in the Army, Kahn has been writing for magazines ever since. To write for the New Yorker is actually to be a free-lance writer with office. The writer comes up with his own idea for a piece, the magazine agrees to pay the expenses for the research and keeps advancing the writer money while he is writing it. As a result, Kahn admits, he is usually in debt to the New Yorker. "I can't afford to take a year off like those professors can," he says. Because of this...