Word: thurberism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homes where the land was greener and cheaper. New settlements spread across acre upon acre; small, sleepy old towns were inundated by newcomers, and the suburban way of life became the visible substance of what a hard-working nation was working so hard for. "Eventually," observes Humorist-Exurbanite James Thurber (Cornwall, Conn.) of the steady spread of Suburbia, "this country will be called the United Cities of America. One suburb will pile into another until in New York State there'll only be Albany and New York City; and they can really fight it out in the streets...
...Battle of the Sexes. Thurber's The Catbird Seat is transposed into a grand piece of sustained nonsense, with Funnyman Peter Sellers as the bookkeeper with a double-entry personality...
...Battle of the Sexes. Versatile Actor Peter Sellers as James Thurber's dull little clerk who finds unsuspected strength in his filing-cabinet mind when he battles a female efficiency expert...
...Battle of the Sexes. Versatile Actor Peter Sellers as James Thurber's dull little clerk who finds unsuspected strength in his filing-cabinet mind when he battles a female efficiency expert...
...Battle of the Sexes. Thurber's The Catbird Seat, wondrously transmogrified by a queer breed of cat: Actor Peter Sellers, as a timorous Edinburgh clerk, is determined to murder an American efficiency expert (Constance Cummings) who threatens his inky way of life...