Word: benchley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Douglas, from the English department at Columbia University, actually changed her project after coming to the center, giving up "American Saints of the Victorian Era" for a less highfalutin subject: "Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker and the Literary Life of New York in the 1920s." "There's a broader audience than the university is telling us," she insists, voicing a favorite wisdom of the center...
...Columnist Alexander Woollcott called Herman Mankiewicz the funniest man in New York, a town that then included Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Dorothy Parker and other luminaries of the Algonquin Round Table. As a screenwriter in the Hollywood of the '30s and '40s, "Mank" continued to shoot from the quip. Dining at the home of a pretentious gourmet, he suddenly rushed to the bathroom. "Don't worry," he assured his host later, "the white wine came up with the fish." When movie attendance dropped, he offered a unique solution: "Show the movies in the streets, and drive...
...Benchley's impact in some ways was more telling than Frankfurter's. The funniest writer in America was suffused with solemnity. His words were simple, edged with incredulous sorrow that the machinery of law, manipulated by prejudiced men, should mangle the rights and lives of two plain people...