Word: thurberism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Jack Carson, 52. Canadian-born comedian, master of the double take and the slow burn, long stereotyped as the blustering loudmouth who always loses the girl; of cancer; in Encino, Calif. Most memorable roles: the boorish Joe the Twirler in 1942's screen version of Thurber's The Male Animal, and Big Daddy's grasping son, Gooper, in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
CREDOS AND CURIOS (180 pp.)-James Thurber-Harper...
...death of every major author, James Thurber wrote, is followed by the arrival at his door of a literary executor, who will drink his Scotch, mouse around his attic for a year or more, then cart off all his old laundry tickets, racing forms and telephone numbers for a posthumous volume. Anticipating this raggedy sort of immortality, Thurber once poked through his papers and. in The Notebooks of James Thurber, listed seven deterrents to their publication: "persistent illegibility, paucity of material, triviality of content, ambiguity of meaning, facetious approach, preponderance of juvenilia and exasperating abbreviation." In this volume of hitherto...
...collection includes everything from introductions to cartoon books to patter for Playboy, 21 pieces in all, some more than 30 years old. The Notebooks is the best piece, precisely because it tells, in strong, wry Thurber talk, why the rest should not have been printed at all. Only Thurberphiles who want to have his "complete oeuvre" on their shelves will welcome the book, and oeuvre, after all, is a word that would have left Thurber annoyed and embarrassed...
Died. Timothy Costello, 67, shillelagh-sporting Manhattan pubkeeper and longtime confidant of such writers as Hemingway, Steinbeck, O'Hara, and most visibly, James Thurber, who adorned Costello's Third Avenue saloon with his free-swinging sketches of the eternal war between the sexes; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...