The collected works of James Thurber, now numbering 25 volumes ( including the present exhibit ) represent a high standard of literary excellence, as every schoolboy knows.

In substance they lie somewhere between the Southern dialect animal stories of Joel Chandler Harris ( Uncle Remus ) and the polished, witty fables of James Thurber.

* 1894 – James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist ( d. 1961 )

James Thurber described White as being a quiet man, disliking publicity, who during his time at The New Yorker would slip out of his office via the fire escape to a nearby branch of Schrafft's to avoid visitors whom he didn't know.

Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do ( 1929, with James Thurber )

James Thurber

James Thurber used the ancient fable style in his books Fables for Our Time ( 1940 ) and Further Fables for Our Time ( 1956 ), and in his stories " The Princess and the Tin Box " in The Beast in Me and Other Animals ( 1948 ) and " The Last Clock: A Fable for the Time, Such As It Is, of Man " in Lanterns and Lances ( 1961 ).

* James Thurber ( 1894 – 1961 ), Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time.

* Fables for Our Time ( 1940 ) and Further Fables for Our Time ( 1956 ) by James Thurber

* The Princess and the Tin Box by James Thurber

The " Outlines " became sufficiently common for James Thurber to parody the trend in his humorous essay, " An Outline of Scientists "— indeed, Wells's Outline of History remains in print with a new 2005 edition, while A Short History of the World has been recently reedited ( 2006 ).

White, S. J. Perelman, and James Thurber, amongst others.

The likes of Bob Dylan, Serge Gainsbourg and The Rolling Stones combined popular musical traditions with modernist verse, adopting literary devices derived from James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, James Thurber, T. S. Eliot, Guillaume Apollinaire, Allen Ginsberg, and others.

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* An REO is mentioned in a humorous 1933 short story by James Thurber entitled, The Car We Had to Push.

In subsequent decades the magazine published short stories by many of the most respected writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Ann Beattie, John Cheever, Roald Dahl, John McNulty, Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, John O ' Hara, Philip Roth, J. D. Salinger, Irwin Shaw, James Thurber, John Updike, Eudora Welty, and E. B.

* The Years with Ross by James Thurber ( 1959 )

* November 2 – James Thurber, American humorist ( b. 1894 )

** James Thurber, American writer ( d. 1961 )

This selection presents texts from the Bible, Charles Dickens, Thomas Wolfe, Ray Bradbury, and James Thurber to name just a few.

Peggy Cass ( left ), with James Thurber and Joan Anderson in A Thurber Carnival, 1960.

Cass was also part of the nine member ensemble cast for the 1960 Broadway revue A Thurber Carnival, adapted by James Thurber from his own works.

He wrote eloquently to William James that impartial history was not only impossible but undesirable.

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

Sunday Times journalist James Margach, wrote of the Attlee years: " I have never known the Press so consistently and irresponsibly political, slanted and prejudiced ".

He wrote many texts in James Mark Baldwin's Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology ( 1901 – 5 ); half of those credited to him appear to have been written actually by Christine Ladd-Franklin under his supervision.

Most important, each year from 1907 until James's death in 1910, James wrote to his friends in the Boston intelligentsia to request financial aid for Peirce ; the fund continued even after James died.

His imposing contemporaries William James and Josiah Royce admired him, and Cassius Jackson Keyser at Columbia and C. K. Ogden wrote about Peirce with respect, but to no immediate effect.

Bill James wrote that Zimmer often put a piece of beefsteak inside his baseball glove to protect his catching hand from Young's fastball.

In the book The Neyer / James Guide to Pitchers, sports journalist Rob Neyer wrote that the speed with which pitchers like Cy Young, Amos Rusie, and Jouett Meekin threw was the impetus that caused the move.

In 1787, James Madison wrote Thomas Jefferson in France for background information on constitutional government to use at the Constitutional Convention.

He both performed comic characters ( Flash Bazbo — Space Explorer, Mr. Rogers, music critic Roger de Swans, and sleazy record company rep Ron Fields ) and also wrote, arranged and performed numerous musical parodies ( of Bob Dylan, James Taylor and others ).

The central argument in Principles was that the present is the key to the past – a concept of the Scottish Enlightenment which David Hume had stated as " all inferences from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past ", and James Hutton had described when he wrote in 1788 that " from what has actually been, we have data for concluding with regard to that which is to happen thereafter.

James Hadley Chase wrote a few novels with private eyes as the main hero, including Blonde's Requiem ( 1945 ), Lay Her Among the Lilies ( 1950 ), and Figure It Out for Yourself ( 1950 ).

) Philosopher Simon Blackburn wrote a rejoinder to Stove, though a subsequent essay by Stove's protegee James Franklin's suggested that Blackburn's response actually " confirms Stove's central thesis that Darwinism can ' explain ' anything.

The writer calls himself simply “ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ .” Jesus had two apostles named James, but it is unlikely that either of these wrote the letter.

Dublin businessman and Quaker, James G. Douglas, for example, hitherto a Home Ruler, wrote that his political outlook changed radically during the course of the Rising due to the British military occupation of the city and that he became convinced that parliamentary methods would not be sufficient to remove the British presence.

In another shrewd move, Bacon wrote his Apologie in defence of his proceedings in the case of Essex, as Essex had favoured James to succeed to the throne.

In an autobiographical piece that Orwell sent to the editors of Twentieth Century Authors in 1940, he wrote: " The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence.

When the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Sancroft, and six other bishops ( the Seven Bishops ) wrote to James asking him to reconsider his policies, they were arrested on charges of seditious libel, but at trial they were acquitted to the cheers of the London crowd.

The document presents itself as written by James: " I, James, wrote this history in Jerusalem.

Hawks wrote the original story and developed the screenplay with James Kevin McGuinness and Seton Miller.

Greenberg's contributions to the Cleveland farm system led to the team's successes throughout the 1950s, although Bill James once wrote that the Indians ' late 1950s collapse should also be attributed to him.

James Agee wrote, " Bogart does a wonderful job with this character ... miles ahead of the very good work he has done before ".