Word: thurberism
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...judging from the attacks on White which Elledge relates, twentieth-century Americans have not always liked White. In 1935, when The New Yorker was nine years old, both White and his wife Katharine Angell, together with their mutual friend James Thurber, had been making names for themselves through their work on the magazine. Desiring to be both witty and disinterested, informative but sophisticated. The New Yorker...
...post of dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Harvard University is the academic equivalent of James Thurber's catbird seat. Besides overseeing the undergraduate colleges, the dean is in charge of some of the nation's most distinguished graduate programs. In addition, he can capitalize on Harvard's enormous influence over other American colleges and universities. After Dean Henry Rosovsky introduced a "core curriculum" in 1979 for Harvard undergraduates, many other liberal arts colleges rushed to alter their programs. Thus it was of far more than parochial interest when Harvard last week announced...
...synonymous with cunning in tales as far apart as Aesop's and Thurber's. But what is the animal really like? Margaret Lane's The Fox (Dial; $9.95) is a documentary, full of facts and insights, demonstrating that the animal lives up (and down) to its reputation. As the author discloses the secret life of Reynard, she scatters some surprises: dogs probably kill more sheep than foxes do; foxes are secret suburbanites, sharing the contents of the garbage can with raccoons. Kenneth Lilly illuminates the manuscript with meticulously detailed closeups accurate to the last, wicked grin...
...strictly formal affair: patch for the dress or bathing suit, patch for face, no detail. In the process he often produced a curious scragginess. The parts of the bodies rarely connect well, and have noli me tangere written all over them. Sometimes his lumpish ladies on the beach suggest Thurber. In Matisse, no matter how reduced the outline may be or how schematic the stroke of the crayon that says "eye," "breast" or "hip," one can almost always sense the live weight of a body, its organic relationship of part to part, its accessibility to touch. This ability to translate...
...unaffordable injection of at least $5 million for circulation and promotion. For months he had tried to merge with another magazine, to sell SR, or even to give it away. Potential buyers were at first intrigued about acquiring a magazine that had published T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passes, James Thurber and G.K. Chesterton, and that had been credited with helping secure passage in Congress of the 1963 nuclear-test-ban treaty. But upon analysis, would-be bidders deemed SR too risky. Admitted Weingarten: "Saturday Review has had a long and distinguished tradition. But we have invested all that we felt...