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| | Humor Came Her |
 | | His patient was 55 years old, single, and without health insurance since her abrupt departure four years earlier from The New Yorker, where she'd been an influential editor and one of the magazine's more idiosyncratic writers. |
 | | Geng began working for The New Yorker in 1976, when the magazine still valiantly published epic monographs about orange crops, and the office still felt like a dysfunctional faculty lounge, with William Shawn as the presiding dean. |
 | | Shawn's confidence in them was tantamount to tenure at a university, allowing, in Geng's case, a kind of academic jauntiness to bloom during an era when smart-ass humor otherwise prevailed. |
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