Word: yorkers
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...growth at New Yorker...
...there is one last problem. A staff writer on The New Yorker, Malcolm is an adept practitioner of that serious-but-silky prose. The writing is polished and stainless; there is something appropriate about both her and Green speaking in the cultured dialect of the uptown Manhattan brownstone. It seems the entire dramatis personae of the New York Psychoanalytic Society must speak roughly the same way. Nonetheless, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession is fascinating. But the powerful ideas of psychoanalysis and the murkiness they dredge out of all our sick psyches somehow require a more patient, vigorous prose...
...result of that tranquil pleasure, Kamali, 36, a petite, reclusive native New Yorker of Basque-Lebanese descent, finds herself at the center of a fashion revolution. It had its small beginnings last year on one of the trails of Manhattan. "I noticed one day that joggers weren't wearing gray any more," Kamali recalls, "and I thought, hey, what happened to sweatshirts? So I bought some sweatshirt material and began cutting and sewing...
...three sons from a former marriage lives with them; Updike's four children "are all grown up and living more or less on their own." David Updike, 24, seems to have inherited his father's precocity; he has already had three short stories published in The New Yorker...
...these reasons alone, one would have to agree with Janet Malcolm, a staff writer for The New Yorker, that psychoanalysis is "the impossible profession." Her artful, illuminating survey of the field suggests an even stronger reason. After decades of popularizations and spinoffs, the talking cure appears to have trivialized the majesty of the unconscious. People once said that they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning that they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies. Now, people "go for" psychotherapy as they would go for a haircut, a walk in the park or Chinese food...