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...Course Assistant. It was Bunny Largess, Visiting Professor of Half-Truths, who formulated the now-famous rule on "choosing a course assistant." In Bunny's own words, "Make sure he is cruder, more reactionary, and basically less pleasant than even you are. Then give him a free hand." It is also important that the assistant be totally inept as a lecturer (ideally he should drool as well as lisp), and that he cast a favorable light on your physical appearance. [In the event that your academic credentials are likewise open to question, be careful to pick an assistant with ones...
Martyrs Without Martyrdom. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, of Japanese-American parents, Hayakawa has studied in Canada and the U.S. The most famous of his books, Language in Action, which he published in 1941, not only became a bestseller but is still a standard college text. A man of many and varied talents, Hayakawa for five years wrote a column in Chicago's Negro newspaper, Defender, served as director of the Institute of Jazz Studies in New York, and taught English at the University of Chicago before he joined S.F. State's English department...
...Arnold Zweig, 81, master of German letters whose 82 novels and plays dealt mainly with the intrinsic evils of war and its impact on the human soul; after a long illness; in East Berlin. From his experiences as a German soldier in World War I, Zweig fashioned his most famous novel, The Case of Sergeant Grischa, an evocative, existential account of a soldier executed as an example to the Kaiser's troops. Expelled as a Jew by Hitler in 1933, Zweig spent 15 years in Palestine, where he wrote The Crowning of a King, a tale of intrigue...
...mother neglects him for her lovers, so he attaches himself emotionally to a nanny and an eccentric uncle. The uncle, famous as an explorer and balloonist, fills little Balthazar's head with ideas that later crop up inappropriately in moments of crisis. For example, Balthazar is found drunkenly lost in a garden and is arrested for rape. He recalls Uncle's advice: "About the routes to follow through life. Lighthearted on the boulevard, gay in the cafe, a good shot at the shoot. A flower delivered each morning to the door for the buttonhole. Put a smile...
...ordeals involved in creating motion pictures honestly, unhampered by union restrictions, production supervision, and general professional laziness. Many statements, among them Nancy Carroll's memoir of shooting MGM's The Water Hole in the heart of Death Valley (the casualty rate approaching Stroheim's for Greed, the most famous horror story of Death Valley's filming), suggest strongly that the first American film-makers willingly demanded a verisimilitude unknown to most of today's artists. Brownlow quotes the great French director Abel Gance (La Roue, Napoleon...