Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longer the exclusive prey of physicists, the issue of the world's ever-increasing nuclear arsenal has captured the hearts--and minds--of America. The give-and-take started in Vermont, where 161 towns so far this year have endorsed a nuclear freeze. It continued when the New Yorker published in three successive issues Jonathan Schell's apocalyptic The Fate of the Earth. It escalated when The New Republic responded to Schell by featuring a piece "in defense of deterrence." It spread further with a Newsweek cover story. And it evolved all out of control with an ABC Nightline special...
...there are problems with reading several columns successively in book form. The rapid succession of brief thoughts, as well as the sometimes incessant recycling of well-turned phrases, dulls some-what the respect for his writing. The book is not necessarily for reading but for browsing, like a New Yorker collection of cartoons...
...therein lies an irony. Schell has had one of the great editors of our time: William Shawn, the reclusive, brilliant, sometimes quirky but certainly benevolent dictator for the past 30 years at The New Yorker. Shawn is not only Schell's boss but his mentor as well. Insiders at the magazine believe that Shawn, 74, hopes that Schell, 38, will eventually succeed him-an idea that has caused some resistance among the staff, partly because Schell got a reputation as an overly emotional, "radic-lib" opponent of the Viet Nam War. Shawn, however, has continued to support...
...Yorker has played a unique role in bringing serious, although sometimes long-winded treatments of heavy subjects to large audiences over the years. The magazine's mystique of quality has rubbed off on even some of the more forgettable works that have appeared there...
...meditations on the existential significance of bell-bottom jeans, was a tour de force of softheadedness. Yet it was also a spectacular critical and commercial success when it appeared in 1970, largely because of where it appeared. But other instant bestsellers born in the stately columns of The New Yorker have survived as masterpieces of modern journalism, such as Rachel Carson's 1962 Silent Spring, a catalyst for the environmental movement, and John Hersey's Hiroshima. While Schell's book does not live up to Shawn's reverent assessment, and while it falters in its attempt...