Word: thurber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Thurber, humorist L.H.D...
...Marquand, and, to get out of Bostonian non-health and into condition, panting Lowels trip over puffing Sedgwicks on their morning run around Boston Common. The latter situations are absurd, unlike the "Draft Chart," they are not absurd extensions of existing situations, but attempts at created, impossible absurdity, like Thurber's seal-in-the-bedroom. Such attempts constitute excellent humor when they succeed. These...
U.P.A.'s plans call for full-length treatment of a collection of James Thurber stories (half live, half animation), Ben Jonson's Volpone, Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. Meanwhile, half the company's shorts will feature a nearsighted bumbler named Mr. Magoo. Little Gerald's talents are too specialized for many other stories, but in its own way, his "Boing!" may prove as resounding as the first peep out of Mickey Mouse...
...Thirteen Clocks, by James Thurber. A thoroughly satisfying fairy tale in which the prince and the princess outmaneuver the wicked Duke to an accompaniment of gleeps, glups, guggles and, possibly, inner meanings (TIME...
...Thirteen Clocks, by James Thurber. A thoroughly satisfying fairy tale in which the prince and the princess out-maneuver the wicked Duke to an accompaniment of gleeps, glups, guggles and, possibly, inner meanings (TIME...