Word: yorkerisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novels, is at his best in the short story, where his mastery of the artistic ecology to which he was born is unstrained by the demands of the long migratory flights of the novel. A rare and precious bird is he, protected by the wardens of The New Yorker magazine, who might justly feel that if it were not for them, such gaudy songbirds might die out for having no place to perch, let alone feed. All 20 of Updike's new collection have been published in that magazine...
...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Alan (The Russians Are Coming . . .) Arkin stars as a New Yorker facing the hazards of marriage complicated by his love affair with the Big City. Co-starring in "The Love Song of Barney Kempinski" by Murray Schisgal are Sir John Gielgud, Alan King and Lee Grant. Premiere...
...That was a splendid story on Yorty and our great city. As a former New Yorker, may I say that the difference between Watts and Harlem is the difference between limbo and hell. If Yorty is given half a chance, Watts may become a heaven, like the rest of our wonderful city...
...Vicious Circle and Blessed Are the Debonair the activities of the 1920s' Algonquin Round Table (a luncheon gathering of such literary jesters as Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman), also contributed articles to Vanity Fair and a series of notable theatrical profiles to The New Yorker; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...artist much favored by Buffalo Bill was New Yorker Charles Schreyvogel, who reached manhood in the 1880s only to find that the West had already been won. Undaunted, he set out to become the chronicler of the cavalryman in action, and Cody obligingly let him use the cowboys and Indians in his Wild West show as models. The results may have been at times secondhand-and his dust-raising dramas clearly anticipate the modern Western-but such paintings as The Summit Springs Rescue, glorifying Cody's role in a much disputed battle, so impressed another Wild West fancier, Theodore...