Word: thurberism
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...lucky ones, we first citizens of film"), a baseball fan in the age of Ruth and DiMaggio, a motorist when cars had wooden-spoked wheels, a drinker during the ascendancy of the martini and a New Yorker editor of sufficiently long standing to have worked with William Shawn, James Thurber, Ogden Nash and Donald Barthelme. He was born lucky and he knows it, but he also knows that luck is never quite enough. "Life is tough and brimming with loss," Angell writes, "and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then...
...memoir, now in its 10th printing, has recently been translated into Persian. It is also one of the three finalists for the 2005 Thurber Prize for American Humor...
...about the troubles of the first woman major-league baseball player. (Twenty-seven of his magazine pieces were collected in 1982's Happy to Be Here, which sold 210,000 copies.) But it is the Lake Wobegon imaginings that raise comparisons with the Midwestern bedfalls and dogaclysms of James Thurber and, further east, with the work of the late E.B. White, the essayist of The New Yorker who wrote so memorably of rural Maine. This is high company, but one additional comparison is beginning to be made. Keillor has sometimes performed in a white suit, perhaps with comparison aforethought...
...American humor. From the '30s until the '80s, Mankoff says, the punch line was in the third person: we were laughing at--not with--the figure in the cartoon: it was an era of screwball comedies, Jack Benny and cops chasing people through hallway doors. In a James Thurber cartoon, a man stops his date in the lobby of his building to say, "You wait here and I'll bring the etchings down." It's the Joey theory of humor...
...American humor. From the '30s until the '80s, Mankoff says, the punch line was in the third person: we were laughing at - not with - the figure in the cartoon: it was an era of screwball comedies, Jack Benny and cops chasing people through hallway doors. In a James Thurber cartoon, a man stops his date in the lobby of his building to say, "You wait here and I'll bring the etchings down." It's the Joey theory of humor...