Word: thurber
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White also published several books, including a satire of sex manuals called "Is Sex Necessary?," written in collaboration with James Thurber...
...them current, all of them finely polished. Over the course of 60 years of independent proprietorship, The New Yorker won an enviably loyal audience along with an honored place on the country's cultural mantel. The magazine proved an accommodating haven for stylish writers as disparate as James Thurber and Isaac Bashevis Singer, E.B. White and J.D. Salinger. To many observers, the elegant weekly seemed not only steeped in tradition but nearly immutable, from its stubborn tenancy of a warren of cramped offices on Manhattan's 43rd Street to its whimsical insistence on printing its foppish inaugural cover every February...
Castle residents used to look for inspiration to humorists like E.B. While and James Thurber and seek slots at the New York or Vanity Fair after graduation. Today's crowd is more apt to look for its heros on Second City Television or the David Letterman Show and join the ranks of television and movie script writers in Hollywood or New York...
...judging from the attacks on White which Elledge relates, twentieth-century Americans have not always liked White. In 1935, when The New Yorker was nine years old, both White and his wife Katharine Angell, together with their mutual friend James Thurber, had been making names for themselves through their work on the magazine. Desiring to be both witty and disinterested, informative but sophisticated. The New Yorker...
...post of dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Harvard University is the academic equivalent of James Thurber's catbird seat. Besides overseeing the undergraduate colleges, the dean is in charge of some of the nation's most distinguished graduate programs. In addition, he can capitalize on Harvard's enormous influence over other American colleges and universities. After Dean Henry Rosovsky introduced a "core curriculum" in 1979 for Harvard undergraduates, many other liberal arts colleges rushed to alter their programs. Thus it was of far more than parochial interest when Harvard last week announced...