Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blue-Blooded Liberal. Gil Winant is a blueblood, son of an aristocratic New Yorker who made a fortune in real estate. As a boy at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., he was awkward, scraggly, uncouth; he concentrated on American history, barely crawled by in his other subjects. As a Princeton undergraduate, he left college in 1912 to campaign for Roosevelt...
Differences in opinions occur all too frequently. Witness the reviews given "Woman of the Year" and "King's Row" last week by two fairly reputable critics of motion pictures. In the New Yorker, Russell Maloney, who knows what he's talking about, called "King's Row"--"a job done crisply, competently and with confidence," and then proceeded to pan "Woman of the Year." Sunday, in the New York Times, Bosley Crowther, who also knows what he's talking about, says of "King's Row"--"utterly depressing and artistically sour" and then says of the other, that it is a film...
...most gifted U.S. short-story writers, Irwin Shaw is also one of the most successful. All but one of the 20 stories in this volume are collected from The New Yorker, Story, Harper's Bazaar and other magazines. Some of the best...
...Liebling is one of the more proficient of The New Yorker's stylists; this is a collection of ten of his pieces. To read them at one sitting is like using a scalp vibrator for two hours on end. Taken with rest periods between, they are funny, sharp, engaging slices of Manhattan life. The two funniest...
...casual "Well, what does it matter anyhow?" sort of way. The former type is represented in New York by such as Downes of the "Times" who is one of the best meaningless-phrase-makers in the business, and the latter by such as Simon of the "New Yorker" who writes not-to-much of nothing, and writes it very well. There must be taste and standards in music as well as in other fields of art if music is to be thought of as anything more than a decoration of an odd moment. To be fair in setting such standards...