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James Thurber

James Thurber. “Thurberisms”. December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961. Thurberisms. “It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.” “Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with feat, but look around with awareness.

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James Thurber

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  1. James Thurber “Thurberisms”

  2. December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961

  3. Thurberisms • “It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.” • “Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with feat, but look around with awareness. • “You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.” • “The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.” • “Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?” • “Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.” • “He who hesitates is sometimes saved.” • “All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.”

  4. Vocabulary for“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”By James Thurber

  5. coreopsis (271) Daisy-like flowers

  6. 2. disdainful (271) expressing disgust

  7. 3. satire (271) a literary work that ridicules or pokes fun at a situation

  8. 4. relished (271) enjoyed; ;to enjoy or to please

  9. 5. inconsistency (271) not staying the same

  10. buffeted (271) beaten back

  11. rakishly (272) having a trim neat appearance 

  12. grossly (273) very wrong; immediately obvious

  13. lurched (273) to suddenly roll, pitch, or sway to one side

  14. 10. tertiary (273) a third time

  15. craven (274) cowardly, afraid

  16. 12. grave (274) requiring serious thought

  17. bicarbonate (275) an acid salt of carbonic acid used to settle upset stomachs; an antacid, like “Alka-seltzer”

  18. 14. pandemonium (275) wild disorder, noise or confusion

  19. 15. bedlam (275) any noisy, confused place or situation; noise and confusion; uproar

  20. 16. cur (275) a person who is mean, contemptible or worthless, cowardly

  21. cannonading (276) a continuous firing of artillery

  22. barrage (276) a curtain of artillery fire laid down to keep enemy forces from moving

  23. derisive (277) ridiculing, making fun of

  24. inscrutable (277) mysterious; that which cannot be understood

  25. Extra Credit: Ellipsis . . .

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