Word: thurbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thurber learned a great deal from White, and he is the first to acknowledge the debt. "I learned more about writing from White than from anybody," he has said. "He taught me to write a simple declarative sentence. I still send my things to him to read...
World of His Own. Of his old colleague, White has written: "Most writers would be glad to settle for any one of ten of Thurber's accomplishments. He has written the funniest memoirs, fables, reports, satires, fantasies, complaints, fairy tales and sketches of the past 20 years, has gone into the drama and the cinema, and on top of that has littered the world with thousands of drawings. Most writers and artists can be compared fairly easily with contemporaries. Thurber inhabits a world...
...Althea were divorced. Their daughter, Rosemary, has just finished her sophomore year at the University of Pennsylvania. She has shown marked acting talent, perhaps inherited from her paternal grandmother. Thurber is an affectionate father; he and his daughter get along splendidly. Althea is now the wife of Dr. Allen Gilmore, head of the history department at Carnegie Tech...
...present, Jim is putting the finishing touches on his latest book, The Thurber Album, which will be published next fall. In some of the chapters that have appeared in The New Yorker-particularly one -called Daguerreotype of a Lady-Thurberites believe they have detected a new Thurber, still very funny, but somehow deeper and richer; the most exciting Thurber, they claim, since his sight failed...
Sometimes I Love You. Ambivalent is probably the word for Thurber. Although he believes he is essentially optimistic about the human species, he tends to nurse doubt when he rolls the subject around in his mind: "The human species is both horrible and wonderful. Occasionally, I get very mad at human beings, but there's nothing you can do about it. I like people and hate them at the same time. I wouldn't draw them in cartoons, if I didn't think they were horrible; and I wouldn't write about them, if I didn...