Word: thurbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greek Myths (Penguin; 95? a vol.), takes the Egg with a pinch of salt insofar as it pretends to historical accuracy. But he considers it a sound Egg in the mythical sense, in that it expresses the true and natural order of things. For like the Pelasgians and James Thurber, Poet Graves has no doubt that "woman [is] the dominant sex and man her frightened victim." If the world is in a mess today he says, it is because egoistical man dethroned the Eggoistical goddess and replaced her with grim-faced deities named Zeus, Jupiter, Jehovah...
Only about sixty people filtered into Agassiz for the opening of James Thurber's Thirteen Clocks Wednesday night and that was unfortunate for several people. It was too bad for the ones who did not filter in because Thurber seems always to be very fine...
...well. Richard Chaffee confused too often the sophisticated evil of the Duke with the organic writhings of a monster. Ruth Emerson, as his niece, the Princess Saralinda, contrasted warmth and serenity with the Duke's icy fingers nicely when she first came on. But she did not bend as Thurber expanded her into the floating symbol of molested maidens...
...Radcliffe Dance Group, in cooperation with the Harvard Dramatic Club, will present a dance-drama version of Thurber's fantasy "The Thirteen Clocks," on the afternoons of March 30 and 31, and April...
Many Moons (Sat. 6 p.m., ABC). A James Thurber fantasy by Puppeteer Burr (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) Tillstrom...