Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorker hurriedly unloaded the last of its anecdotes on the maid shortage. Soon A-card holders would get more gasoline; by the end of the year there would even be a few new cars. The battle for Okinawa, begun three weeks before the final collapse of the Ruhr pocket, flared hotter than ever...
...newsman to interview Tito. In a tense chapter of Keep Your Head Down he describes his seven-day march to Tito's headquarters and his meeting with the Partisans. But readers of Bernstein's book, much of which was reprinted from the pages of the New Yorker, will value it mostly for the scissors-sharp silhouettes it contains of plain American G.I.s...
...concerts will consist of the following selections: "Harvard Hymn" by William Howard Payne '69; "On Thou the Central Orb" by Gibbons; "Three Italian Madrigals," one by Mounteverdi and two by Gastoldi; "Pianola D'Amore" from "Four Choral Patterns from the New Yorker" by Irving G. Fine '38 with verse by David McCord '21; and choruses from "Patience" by Gilbert and Sullivan...
...based on Dorothy Thompson, who's supposed to be married to Ingersoll--the lampoon breaks down a bit here. From the facts pointed out above, it should be clear that the chitchat in "Over Twenty-One" is of the sort associated with the ante-rooms of the New Yorker...
...professionally light-hearted New Yorker, which last week made this admission, has fallen more & more often in recent weeks into an uneasy, self-conscious mood. The New Yorker has not been alone. A wartime schizophrenia has touched all U.S. magazines trading in fiction and frills. And last week, in the April Harper's, Poet-Anthologist Oscar Williams culled from his correspondence with poets a summary of the wartime writer's dilemma-"a kind of Gallup poll of the soul." No writer was particularly happy in his work. Samples of unease...