Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chooses not to whisper his own views into the President's ear. "The cause I push is a kind of elevated common sense," he says. Goldwin prefers to act as distiller and conveyor of the ideas of others. He has good credentials for that role. A native New Yorker who fought with the U.S. Cavalry in World War II, Goldwin graduated in 1950 from St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. He spent the next nine years editing reading materials and training discussion leaders at the American Foundation for Continuing Education...
...supercilious, Oscar Wilde face, with a nose that richly deserved tweaking. It adorned a new publication called The New Yorker, and the smart money said of face and magazine, as Dorothy Parker had once said of a pair of amorous gorillas: "I give them six months...
Omerta! Sealed lips! Sealed lips, ladies and gentlemen! Our Thing! We are editing The New Yorker magazine...
...great fun with all that snobbery, and in the second installment "Lost in the Whichy Thicket," he talked about The New Yorker writing style...
Terrific stuff, and The New Yorker brass reacted with the moaning outrage of water buffalos stabbed from behind. They called Wolfe an idiot. He was a lightweight, they were the venerable custodians of an institution. They wouldn't tinker with their magazine, regardless of such attacks, and in the ten years since his piece, the stodgy complacency has remained unchanged. It is splashed all over the anniversary issue. So happy 50th, New Yorker. R.I.P...