Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lists hundreds of contacts in the acknowledgements, including Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., John McPhee, William Saroyan (apparently still kicking around), Frank Sinatra, John Cheever and John Updike. They all find their way into the narrative. O'Hara's employers--Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, The New Yorker, Random House and the Screenwriters Guild--allowed MacShane to dig through O'Hara's files...
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Thank you for confirming what we've long suspected about The New Yorker [Jan. 12]. The occasional chuckle or pleasure experienced in coming upon an engrossing piece does not compensate any longer for the exasperation generated by plowing through all those slick, expensive pages of prolix maunderings. It's very sad, somewhat like losing a bright, witty and interesting companion to stroke and senility...
...Shawn than by others around the premises. Shawn ended the uncertainty by posting a two-line notice on the board saying he intended to stay on a while. The editorship is his "as long as he feels he can do the job," says George J. Green, The New Yorker's president. (Management so defers to Shawn that he doesn't even have an editorial budget, but spends what he wants.) How long does Shawn intend to stay on? Delicate ground. When asked, Shawn replies, "I just haven't made any decision. I'm still here today...
...general reader can be taken into account, just a teeny bit, without jeopardizing the integrity of the writer? Might he change the magazine drastically? Discussions usually end with writers reassuring one another that the magazine's habits and attitudes are now safely institutionalized. At heart, The New Yorker is very pleased with itself...