Word: thurberism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...page 81, TIME Book Critic John Skow pays an affectionate parting tribute to a member of our craft, the late James Thurber. Thurber appeared on TIME'S cover on July 9, 1951. By then his eyesight was far gone, and he had almost ceased doing any more drawing. But he obligingly availed himself of a large sheet of black paper (he could only see sharp contrasts), and with a piece of chalk drew the self-portrait that is reproduced here, along with several of his famous dogs...
Died. James Thurber, 66, creator of Walter Mitty and chronicler of the war between the sexes; a month after emergency surgery for a blood clot on the brain; in Manhattan...
This short scene, which might be described as a grey-out, is the work of Jules Feiffer, 32, who was once slyly described by Critic Kenneth Tynan as "the best writer now cartooning." Tynan obviously overlooked James Thurber, but Feiffer appears to have taken the hint. His first stage work, a revue called The Explainers, which is running at Chicago's new Playwrights cabaret theater, in some ways recalls Broadway's A Thurber Carnival, but it has a wry. gentle note all its own. It is also part of a growing Chicago school of humor (although Feiffer himself...
Lanterns and Lances, by James Thurber. Tongue twisters, riddles, puns, palindromes and the war between the sexes, acrobatically presented by that old master of reverse English: Semaj Rebruht...
Lanterns and Lances, by James Thurber. More fun than a barrel of money...