Word: duck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cartoons range from Disney's Donald Duck to Her block's political satires. Thurber's cartoons lie very close in essence to the "pure cartoon"--the self sufficient line drawing to which words are contingent accidents. These unadulterated pictures resemble poetry in use of paradox and irony, subtle imagery and wit. They live through a juxtaposition of incongruities, an analogous inversion of the natural order of the universe, and dexterous development of symbolism...
...Bounty mutineers, some of his lifeboat companions went weeks with no bowel movement, had no lasting ill effects. For a trip to the moon, the Air Force thinks it now has an airtight zipper-type fastening for pressure suits that will enable the pilot to function like a duck hunter opening the flap on his long-Johns; the fecal matter will go into plastic bags, be deodorized and stowed unobtrusively...
...catcher flashed a signal and stuck up his mitt-a fat target. The pitcher frowned moodily and began his windup-a reluctant marksman. All evening, Cincinnati's big righthander, Brooks Lawrence, had been firing successfully past the St. Louis Cardinals. Now he seemed ready to throw and duck. And he had reason. Coiled in the batter's box was Stan ("The Man") Musial, the indestructible old pro whose potent bat has been tormenting National League pitchers ever since his rookie season with St. Louis 18 summers...
...Roman girl who did a turn at Radcliffe. It all leaves him too jumpy to enjoy the landscape between Rome and Perugia, or even the pleasures of an assignation near the Borghese Gardens. With the warning comes a promise. It seems that if the tourist has enough wit to duck when the guns go off, and enough patience to wait for the professional counterspies to bumble through, he will win his girl and go home a hero. At least he does when a competent author organizes a bestselling suspense story...
...many Britons eager to try again in the phantom hope of restoring a big Chinese trade, British Labor M.P. Harold Wilson, recently back from Peking and a two-hour interview with Premier Chou Enlai, last week reported a significant new bob and duck in the interminable reeling and trolling of the Communist line...