Word: thurberism
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...Picture had the skilled naivete of antique Chinese drawings, while Lady Demon, Country Dwarf and Mask of Fear were like small windows into a skeleton-filled closet. Exercises, a few squiggly lines portraying an amazed dog watching three uncomfortably contorted human beings, was as sharp and prodding as a Thurber vignette...
...copies of Amerika's Russian edition get thumbed by about 1,000,000 So. viet citizens. In the first Czech issue of Amerika, readers will find 72 pages of reprints from the Russian, ranging from the 4-H Clubs to Radio City, and from Thomas Jefferson to James Thurber...
...program includes "Flickers," a parody of the silent film era; "A House Divided," a Lincoln portrait; and "Fables for Our Time," a dance interpretation of James Thurber's stories...
...Weidman will bring his dance company to Rindge Technical High School at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow night for the group's only Boston performance this season. The performance, which is sponsored by the Radcliffe dance department, will include "Fables For Our Time," based on James Thurber's stories, "Flickers," take-off on the silent films, and "A House Divided," a Lincoln portrait...
...Similarly, 5¼ columns for Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay seem extravagant in a book that spares less than two to Leo Tolstoy, one column to V. I. Lenin and less than one to James Joyce, twelve lines to Scott Fitzgerald, 13 to André Gide, five to James Thurber, one to Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and nothing at all to Arnold Toynbee, Edmund Wilson and the "Big Three" of psychology (Freud, Jung, Adler), whose words have become only-too-painfully"familiar...