Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company. The automaker immediately laid off 2,500 U.S. workers who produce parts used in Canada and said that another 3,500 could be let go if a settlement is not reached within several weeks. The Canadian shutdown also cuts output of the highly profitable Dodge vans and New Yorker models, all of which are assembled in Windsor...
...reach their trains, passengers walk a zigzag detour one-third of a mile around the boarded-up building. At the end of this trek is a jerry-built replacement station. "This long walk is for the birds," groused New Yorker Aileen Gravelle, 71, dragging her suitcase along one muggy day. "And it used to be such a lovely station...
Paul M. Broader '54, a staff writer for the New Yorker and currently an Expository Writing teacher, explained that to secure a position with a literary magazine, an aspiring writer must first have his work published in other publications. "One becomes a writer gradually, not suddenly," he said...
...much of a good thing. And Updike, while disagreeing with former critics of his methods, has noticeably reined in his writing in the past few years. His style has become tougher and more concrete. Says Author Roger Angell, who edits the Updike stories that appear in The New Yorker: "It seems to me that he's freed his writing from brilliance. He is a brilliant writer. But his prose has the brilliance of crystal; you can see through it. In reading the early Updike, you were aware of the writer. But now you find that all his perception...
This troubled house harbored another writer, David Updike, now 25, who has had three stories published in The New Yorker. One, called Apples (1978), poignantly portrays the edginess of an absent father's weekend visits: "He always leaves suddenly, catching us with a bite of dessert left on our plates or a swig of coffee in our mouths, and my mother asking, invariably, why so soon. I sympathize with him, though, and would like to hug him knowing somehow that his sudden departure is not out of any eagerness to return to his apartment in the city...