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...Frazier forte. Rather, his strength is an unerring eye for targets vulnerable to his wit, delivered in the bilious tones of an aggrieved headmaster. Once in a while he softens with memories of the good old days. He can sentimentalize at length about bar-hopping with Hemingway and Thurber, and pay tribute to Tim Costello, the late keeper of a Manhattan literary saloon, this way: "Without himself, who has been in the ground and as one with the heather on the heath these many unstylish years, Tim's was never again as it was when he was there softly...
Battle of the Sexes is an odd adaptation. A Peter Sellers movie based nominally on James Thurber's The Catbird Seat, it transports the action from New York to an old-fashioned woolens company in Scotland. Verrry Brrritish...and verrry funny...
...began, James Thurber would probably say, in the Garden. Bobby Riggs, somewhat less cosmic, says that it began two years ago. He had been on the road gambling, hustling, playing in senior men's tennis tournaments. Upon winning a seniors' tournament in La Jolla, Calif., he received a telephone call from his second wife, Priscilla, who was in Florida. She told him much the same thing after 20 years of marriage that his first wife, the former Kay Fischer, had said after 13 uneven years: Where have you been all our wedlock...
...that I had grown up trained to believe the wrong one. My parents made a persuasive model for the idea that men were stronger than women, hence better. My father had power over my mother economically, intellectually, etc. He could demolish her verbally; their arguments ran like a Thurber parody of The Battle Between the Sexes. He could think more precisely and analytically than she could. His infallible logic made her look clumsy and irrational, and she failed ever to muster as clean a logic when pitted against him. He would retreat to a citadel of rationality and leave...
BOSTON REPERTORY THEATER. The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail after Thoreau. The Little Prince ater Saint-Exupery, The Thirteen Clocks after Thurber, in repertory, as you might expect. Marlboro and Berkeley Streets in Boston...