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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MARX BROTHERS AT THE MOVIES, by Paul D. Zimmerman and Burt Goldblatt. Next to a reel of their films, this excellent book offers the best possible way to meet (or revisit) the Marx Brothers in the happy time when they had all their energy and all their laughs...
ACCORDING TO THE little red HSA handbook, there are several ways to make money at Harvard. The easiest scheme, as a former HSA president and two close friends from the Pudding have now proven, is publishing a book. Call it the "definitive insiders' guide" to the Ivy League, chock it full of nifty alumni picnic stories, throw in artsy unfocused pictures of preppies drinking beer in Harvard stadium and hippies standing around looking high, slide it into a glossy cover with Ivy school emblems that look like ski patches, and wait for the money to roll...
...ATTEMPT at the end of each section of the book to compare levels of education at different Ivy schools, degenerates into a faces and names tally sheet. The potential Ivy Leaguer gets to choose his education by the number of names he recognizes...
...WITH A BOOK that needs every friend it can get, the Ivy Guidebook naturally refuses to pass a critical judgment on any of the Ivy schools. Behind all the faces and jokes, somewhere, sometime, I think I expected to see some sort of qualitative distinction made between one college and the next...
...make me think that Harvard is too cool to dump on those other seven colleges. But the Ivy Guide is just the come-on without the twisted ironic smile. And if, as the authors admit, the idea was dreamed up over whisky sours at the Pudding, then the book must have been written much later that night on the way home...