Word: thurberism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Battle of the Sexes. Outguinnessing Guinness, in a transatlantic adaptation of James Thurber's The Catbird Seat, Britain's Peter Sellers is an Edinburgh bookkeeper ready to murder the 20th century's threat to his traditional way of life...
...Battle of the Sexes (Bryanston; Continental), the less amusing of the two comedies, nevertheless permits Sellers to perform a minor prodigy of uproarious understatement. The picture transposes The Catbird Seat, a wickedly funny short story by James Thurber, from Manhattan to Edinburgh, and expands it from about eight pages of print to 88 minutes of celluloid. Sellers plays the hero of the piece, a timid soul with a face as blank as a manila folder, who has lived without women, whisky, cigarettes, or even regrets, and has worked for 35 somnolent years as a bookkeeper in the dingy Victorian offices...
...Thurber Carnival. The men, women and dogs that chase one another through Humorist James Thurber's mind come yakking and yipping to the stage in a grand, slightly bland evening...
...Thurber Carnival. The men, women and dogs that chase one another through Humorist James Thurber's mind come yakking and yipping to the stage in a grand, slightly bland evening...
Life and literature are not as far apart as some critics like to believe, and few books seem truer to life than those in which the author indulges his nostalgia. Writers as various as Marcel Proust, Thomas Wolfe and James Thurber separately discovered that "you can't go home again." In The Waters of Kronos, Novelist Conrad Richter adds an extra dimension to this truism. His hero grasps what countless other men have sensed: you can never really leave home. Novelist Richter has written a dozen books (The Trees, The Fields, The Town) in which the American grain stands...