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...another animated lecture, urging the superiority of dogs to humans and including that celebrated cartoon sequence, The Bloodhound and the Bug; 4) a live dramatization of The Whippoorwill, one of Thurber's narrative ventures into neurasthenic horror; and 5) a three-reel version of his fantasy, The White Deer...
...sheet, words which he cannot see, although he peers at them through a thick goggle. After he has finished the first draft of a piece, it is read back to him, and he makes oral revisions sentence by sentence. Thurber always was a relentless reviser (he rewrote The White Deer 25 times) so that his composition has become slow and painful. Nevertheless, in the past ten years he has written and published more than he did in the previous...
Skipping on to the bridge comes a Latin-spouting schoolteacher who has the solution to war, if only he can answer the riddle posed by the leader of one of the armies. The question: How can a deer escape from a field surrounded by a wall so high that it cannot be climbed and through which there is no exit? None of the group can solve the riddle, but each has a fine musical time working it over. At last the leader enters, declares a victory, answers the riddle: "[The deer] does not escape." Exit all, laughing and dancing...
Toward the Dalai troupe the Reds were cordial but noncommittal. Premier Chou En-lai gave a dinner in their honor, at which the guests presented Chou with samples of Tibet's golden sand and a pair of newly sprouted horns of a young deer. Said a Dalai delegate: "We will do our best to achieve a peaceful liberation for Tibet." Then Chou showed a film glorifying the power of China's Red army...
...Suddenly my car started to jump like a deer," said Taximan Lefebvre. "I saw a wave of snowy pavement roll toward me." The car appeared to strike the side of the bridge and then fell into space...