Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Cadillacs are flaunting theirs? You never thought the day'd come, didja, They'd glorify steatopygia...
Thurber had this to say about "the enormous rabbit" in his Race of Life: "It can be an uncrossed bridge which seems at first glance to have burned behind somebody, or it can be chickens counted too soon, or a ringing phone, or a thought in the night, or a faint hissing sound." It can be all these things, and indeed is; but it is much more...
...this point, most critics appeal to sex alone. Rabbits are noted for fecundity. Thurber is an old man. He puts rabbits everywhere. Therefore, the argument runs, fertility has become a fixation with the author, sure evidence of the frustration of age. This line of thought not only does Thurber an injustice, but reflects rampant intellectual cowardice. One must face the rabbit squarely, meet him head-on. The issue cannot be casually side-stepped...
...Washington the Government gave no formal explanation for Internal Revenue's taking such a harsh attitude on the tax ruling. Antitrust lawyers had originally thought that the Government might regard the distribution in the same tax-free manner as it treated dispersal of stock by companies broken up by the Utilities Holding Company Act. The difference apparently is due to the Government's view that the utilities were operating legally prior to the law's passage, whereas Du Pont was found guilty of violating the 44-year-old Clayton Antitrust Act. The man who will decide what...
...Edna Ferber's Ice Palace, Paul I. Wellman's Ride the Red Earth, and Robert Lewis Taylor's The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. By also entering two less-likelies, Kenneth Roberts' The Battle of Cowpens and Saunders Redding's The Lonesome Road. Doubleday had thought to give its parlay some sporting zest. It succeeded too well. In flowed letters at the rate of 500 a day; out flowed free books. By the time the mails had poured in some 3,000 claims from winning bettors, the publishers nervously stuck a finger in the dike: they...