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...went on to say how the present world situation was all reflected in the history of Egypt, with its changes of dynasties. But when he started to talk about art, and mentioned his visit to the Louvre: "To be quite candid the Louvre reminded me of an old attic; all the stuff they have up there is so old." That a student of Egyptology should come to such a conclusion sounded a little strange...
...Life and Hard Times, a book which many Thurberites consider his most durable, masterpiece. * Sometimes it got a little overwhelming for Charley Thurber. In Jim's story, The Night the Bed Fell, occurs the sentence, "It happened, then, that my father had decided to sleep in the attic ... to be away where he could think...
...Exotic Taste. Rummaging in history's attic, the University of Nebraska's John Alden has dusted off the controversial figure of Lee in the first full-scale biography in 90 years. Though overly clotted with petty details, Biographer Alden's book goes far toward clearing Lee's name of the suspicion of treachery, plants him securely-if with dubious distinction-among "the fathers of the American Republic...
...block of her grandmother's house during her early schooldays. Bess, loath to have Margaret stray far from home, encouraged them all to come and play on Mrs. Wallace's lawn, where there were swings and a slide to lure them, and in the capacious Wallace attic and basement. There was an old slave quarters in a backyard close by, which had done time as a henhouse in its later years. There Margaret and her friends organized a club known as the "Henhouse Hicks." The Hicks furnished their clubhouse with castout furniture collected pictures of such girlhood idols...
...welcome change from they-went-thataway. Frenchie does not make the grade. The script's attempts to laugh at sex come down to smirks and leers, and Actress Winters plays a poor man's Mae West with little more authority than a schoolgirl flouncing through the attic in mother's old clothes...