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Off the Shelf
By Off the Shelf Staff
| Thursday, July 16, 2015
“The New
Yorker will be a reflection in word and picture of metropolitan
life. It will be human. Its general tenor will be one of gaiety, wit and
satire, but it will be more than a jester. It will be not what is commonly
called sophisticated, in that it will assume a reasonable degree of enlightenment
on the part of its readers. It will hate bunk.” This is the way Harold Ross
described The New Yorker
in an investor’s prospectus in 1925. Now in its ninetieth year, the magazine
has become an American cultural landmark. ... READ
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