Word: thurberism
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...beleaguered Tibetans who have just declared a revolution against the Communist Chinese bear a certain tragic resemblance to the rabbits in Thurber's tale of The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble. Like rabbits, Tibetans are pastoral, non-aggressive. Unlike rabbits and Chinese, Tibetans would not score highly in any "survival of the fittest" struggle among cultures. "Our religion is going," our race is going," says Gayalo Thondap, a brother of the Dalai Llama...
...best humorists--Gibbs, Thurber, Perleman--show up at their poorest (and this may not necessarily be poor as The Male Animal will show) in the theater. When genuinely talented men find the theater hard going there seems to be some evidence to support theories of too much pressure and very little tradition...
...trying to steer the characters in The Watsons in "original" directions, for fear they will grow too like the characters in other Austen novels-until honest imitation melts into irresistible parody. It all goes to show the difficulties confronting an author who has been raised in the world of Thurber, Waugh and Ivy Compton-Burnett and must yet deal deadpan with ploys (such as swoons and blushes) of which he has had no experience...
...Longfellow, or when he was trapped in Filene's revolving door. And the time his date's heel caught and broke in a streetcar track he cheerfully carried her home. He enjoyed House food, loved breakfasts at 8:15, and even liked the Lowell House bells. He read Thurber, collected Charles Addams, and was content to sit alone at night listening to Dylan Thomas recordings and drinking black coffee from his electric percolator. Or would have been had he been able...
...Iceberg. Brash young Review-men got E.M. Forster to explain why he stopped writing novels in 1924, James Thurber to discuss the difference between American and British humor, William Faulkner to talk about his technique, recorded equally penetrating chats with Francois Mauriac, Joyce Gary, Robert Penn Warren and other literary lights. Result: 21 interviews in the Review and a book (Writers at Work; Viking...