Word: thurberism
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Among those obliging him (with one or more examples) were top-rank painters Kuniyoshi, Benton, Marsh, Gropper, Grosz, Evergood, Curry; cartoonists Thurber, Steinberg, R. Taylor. (Amiably disobliging was twice-married oldtimer Maurice Sterne, who wrote: "Why not have an exhibition to include artists' wives? . . . Some pretty good painters have been married three or four times; these could be numbered . . . and would be an interesting study in retrogression...
...Introduction covers a wide range, gives high value at an unusually low price. Along with noted poets (Eliot, Auden, Hardy, Yeats, etc.) are examples from the lesser known (Roy Campbell, James Agee, etc.). The prose writings are also various: Churchill on Dunkirk, stories by Henry James, Eudora Welty, James Thurber, sayings by Logan Pearsall Smith, essays by Aldous Huxley and E. M. Forster, letters by John Jay Chapman, etc. Author Maugham steps in from time to time with offhand comments...
...names in the wry gallery of U.S. satiric artists are Thurber, Arno, Bemelmans. By last week the name of Ensign Saul Steinberg, U.S.N.R., was added to the list...
They are, as Perelman's pieces have been for some years, overformularized; yet even at their most manufactured they have a surface and a perfection of rhythm which little contemporary prose can touch. At their best, they stand with the best of Ludwig Bemelmans and of James Thurber as a shocking commentary on most of the nominally more solid and earnest books being written in English...
Millions of loyal radio fans will miss them. So will Henry Ford, who writes fan letters, J. Edgar Hoover, James Thurber, Vincent Astor, and countless others whose addiction approaches that of the late Arthur Brisbane, who sometimes telephoned breathlessly after the broadcast to find out what would happen in the next episode...