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- (Dec. 21, 1992) Died:William Shawn
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Dec. 21, 1992 Restoring Hope
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 25
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- <p> DIED. William Shawn, 85, editor; in New York City. A quiet
- tyrant of talent and taste, Shawn ruled over the New Yorker, the
- weekly magazine that was arbiter of all things literary and
- social during his reign from 1952, following the death of
- Shawn's legendary predecessor Harold Ross, to 1987, when he was
- forced into retirement by the New Yorker's current owner, S.I.
- Newhouse. His reign embraced the flowering of such writers as
- John Updike and Ann Beattie, as well as the New Yorker's entry--initially reluctant but ultimately wholehearted--into the
- world of advocacy journalism with such stories as Rachel
- Carson's environmental indictment Silent Spring, James Baldwin's
- racial-justice manifesto Letter from a Region in My Mind and
- some of the most unrelenting criticism of U.S. policy in Vietnam
- in American letters.
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