Thus Thurber's latter years are tragic, if his correspondence shows little evidence of self-pity.
As Thurber enters the shank of his career, humorousness evolves from bent to stance.
Or perhaps your words will have the droopy intelligence of a Thurber dog.
Petulant love letters aside, Thurber rarely errs in the killjoy direction himself.
"They're inheriting the beginning of the solution to the problem, " says James Thurber, director of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies.
That does not necessarily mean that the next Congress will fail to come up with a deficit-reduction deal, argues James Thurber of American University.
Thurber's childlike drawings may survive in popular memory more indelibly than his prose, and it is their very crudeness that makes them so disarming.
Some of his most entertaining passages pertain to his editing by the New Yorker, whose fussy style guidelines and passion for commas drove Thurber wild.
Where are the monumental public works, the great public spaces, dedicated to the likes of Emerson and Twain, Edgar Allan Poe and Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Thurber and James Baldwin?
But surely there is a direct line of descent from James Thurber (1894-1961), many of whose madcap sketches and parables draw on his childhood in Columbus, Ohio and the inherently uneasy relationship between men and women and the comparative sublimity of dogs (even those that bite).
Let's start with the wine writers, the people who contribute observations like "It is a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption, " at least in the imaginations of James Thurber and Monty Python (a fine Australian fighting wine, indeed).
Thurber says it will be important for either Obama or McCain to convey the message that a unified effort is necessary to dig the U.S. out of its current financial condition, and action will need to be taken as soon as February, when the president makes his budget request to Congress.
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