Word: fisherisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lois Sipuel Fisher, 27-the first Negro ever admitted (after a legal battle) to the University of Oklahoma Law School-got her diploma. Her record: "satisfactory...
...hoary history. But its squatting skyline, the great structures of the General Motors Building, the Fisher Building, the Detroit Edison power plant, are symbols of history still in the making...
Home Life. James Grover Thurber was born in Columbus in 1894, second of the three children of Charles Leander and Mary Agnes Fisher Thurber. (Mrs. Thurber didn't like the "Leander," so her husband, a loyal Republican, changed it to "Lincoln.") Their other sons were William, a year older than Jim, and Robert, two years younger...
Furthermore, says Fisher in effect, Solomon's wisdom was not even his own; it was just a lot of words put in his mouth by his ghostwriter and his Egyptian wife. The real Solomon, according to Fisher, was a phony liberal with a father complex and a massive sexual overcompensation; his quarrel with the prophet Ahijah* was an exchange of irrelevancies between a dilettante and a fanatic...
...Author Fisher shows some sympathy for the hot-eyed Ahijah. It is almost as though there were some burning affinity between the old eater of stones and howler in the waste places and the seer of Hagerman, Idaho, crying his confused and passionate evangel of history in the wilderness of American letters...