Word: thurberism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...eminent man of letters who corresponded with James Thurber, T. S. Eliot, Harry Truman and others, Groucho Marx, 70, reported that the Library of Congress has asked him to donate his personal papers. "To back up the request, they said they had the first and second Gettysburg addresses and the Declaration of Independence." Anyway, Groucho will turn over some 300 letters to and from him, including, unfortunately, only a few notes from his late brothers, Chico and Harpo. "I don't think Harpo could write," said Groucho, "but Chico did write me once. I was in Macwahoc...
Time was, of course, when summer fare was strictly "hammock reading": Agatha Christie, Erie Stanley Gardner, Ellery Queen, Thurber, Smith (H. Allen, Logan Pearsall or Thome), Bob Benchley, Eric Ambler, Erskine Caldwell -authors who could be read by firefly or by fishing stream, and required no expenditure of thought. Few weighty books were published in summer, and few were bought...
...cars it has ever known: the Mercedes and Auto Unions. They were great, growling 600-h.p. monsters that could hit 200 m.p.h. on a straight -if they found one straight enough. Two world wars did their share to help, producing generations of youngsters thirsty for thrills. The terror of Thurber's aunt, who tried vainly to conquer a car and wound up pleading, "Somebody take this goddamn thing away from me," gave way to something the psychologists called "locomotor philia": the teen-ager in his chromed and channeled-down hot-rod who leaned out at stop lights and sneered...
...elucidating the thesis: "The creative person has a special gift: his private vision of the world." The cycle of half-hour programs has already premiered over 20 of the U.S.'s largest NET channels, will eventually be carried by all 90 of them. The opener, "A James Thurber's-Eye View of Men, Women and Less Alarming Creatures," was a resourceful, rousing revue adapted from the author's work. This week's show focuses fascinatingly on Household Poet-Critic John Ciardi; among its vignettes: a sound track of the artist reading his own domestic verse...
...SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY. Juicy characters never conceived by James Thurber have entered Mitty's fantasy world in this breezy and entertaining musical farce...