Word: aping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outangs is not very different from the emotion of man", said Dr. Wolfgang Koehler, Director of the Institute of Psychology of the University of Berlin, who has been visiting the University for the past week-end. "The only difference--if it is a difference--between the love of an ape and the love of a man, is that if you take the ape's girl into the next rom, he promptly forgets all about her." Dr. Koehler has spent several years in intimate study of apes in the Canary Islands...
...Apes cannot be elevated from their position in the animal world, according to Dr. Koehler. The chimpanzees which we see on the stage, dressed up as men, and eating with knives and forks, are not really any more developed than their brethren who depend upon hair for clothing and their hands for table implements. The ape dresses because he is made or induced to, not because he wants to or sees any reason for doing so. Apes are apes the world over...
...cinema. The film (from Conan Doyle's tale) is unimportant in narrative. An English youth would like to marry. His girl tells him he must do big things. Eventually, they migrate to South America on the trail of prehistorics. Out come the brontosauri and Bull Montana as an ape man; the fun starts. Later, one of the beasts runs loose in the streets of Liverpool. Just how it is all done, only the camera man knows. It will repay inspection. The Great Divide, you will recall, was one of the first men-are-men dramas and created exceptional excitement...
...Lampoon, ever since the war, has been flirting with the idea that it ought to be a grown-up humorous publication, rather than the Harvard Lampoon. The temptation is constant, with all college journalists, to ape the fashions of their seniors, oblivious of the fact that those same seniors would be the first to change their own ways to meet the wishes of a different clientele. This year's Lampoon board, by good luck or greater intelligence, has demonstrated that the Lampoon can do the thing which its editors want to accomplish, best, when they turn its attention to what...
...differentiate themselves from this clan, they wear their hair longer; their neckties, their phrases, are more picturesque. The only criticism they fear is the accusation that they fear criticism, that they are trying to make themselves as gimmicks are. Not so Vincent Lopez, famed jazzbo. Music, he says, should ape business. Orchestras should have labels, price tags; the labels should stand for quality. Jazz is a commodity, like canned food. It should be retailed as such. To carry out this theory, he has organized a company-Vincent Lopez Inc.-the shares of which he has offered for sale...