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...panorama scanned in this scenic tour of Thurber land is varied enough to suit any reader's taste. Mystery fans will probably find "The White Rabbit Caper" most to their liking. Out Spading Spade, it begins, "Fred Fox was pouring himself a slug of rye when he door of his office opened and in hopped old Mrs. Rabbit . . ." One of the choicest in the autobiographical vein is a little item called "There's a Time for Flags, or (Notes of a man who bought a curious Christmas gift)." The Thurber Diaries are like none other: "Dec. 15--Yesterday morning...
Scoffing Educators. Frut finds that gods, as well as classes, have been abolished. Just unnecessary nonsense, Blue Cape's educators explain. Doesn't any Blue Caper ever kill another? Frut asks. Why should he? ask the educators. Is it reasonable for a lizard to kill a fellow lizard? Born reasonable, Blue Capers pool their supplies and their work, rarely bother much with personal names since any Blue Caper is by nature and desire much like any other Blue Caper. When Frut begins shuffling into his mating dance for a female Blue Caper, she says...
These playlets let the two stars caper at will, with Rex Harrison providing some brilliant bits while Lilli Palmer exerts her lure in all wigs and weathers. If Ustinov's talent wobbles, his tone remains fixed: as both satire and fantasy, the play is always fizz and never highfalutin...
...candidate who was in love with his job. He nudged Mamie when the first float rolled by; it was a replica of the white frame house where he was born in Denison, Texas, and bore a sign which read: "Birth Date Oct. 14, 1890." He did a little caper on the marquee when the high-school band played Alexander's Ragtime Band. And he grabbed Mamie and hugged her when he saw the "marriage float," bearing two Abilene youngsters on pink clouds in front of a heart-shaped lattice. The last float-Ike at the White House -had just...
Bruce R. Recker '52, producer of the operetta, said that the caper was either "a fortuitous thing, or the thief knew our movements perfectly...