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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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