Word: funniest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sciences what Big Bird is to Sesame Street, that master of monetary mirth-John Kenneth Galbraith!" And so it went last week in Boston, where Harvard President Derek Bok, Author George Plimpton and 500 other old Crimsons watched the king-sized economist, now 67, honored as Harvard's "funniest professor in 100 years." The festivities, all part of the centennial celebration of the Harvard Lampoon, included a cash prize of $10,000, which Galbraith promptly donated to the university's Fogg Museum, noting that "nothing so fittingly caps an unsuccessful academic career at Harvard as recognition, however belated...
...camera, the mouse is the only one of his themes to have assumed the name of an animate being. Actually it looks very little like a mouse. Oldenburg calls the geometric mouse "a symbol of analysis and intellect". He identifies with it ("I'm the Mouse"); one of the funniest drawings at the ICA is a "self-portrait as a Mystical Mouse". On the front of the artist's shirt is scribbled: "objects", but to mock the possible Significance of that, along the side is written "KING KONG...
...Funniest Professor of the Century," Galbraith Saturday received a purple and gold $12,000 Cadillac Eldorado convertible and a lifetime subscription to the Harvard Lampoon...
...cast in Ragtime. Jagger, springsteen and Dylan all want to play the anarchist younger brother and The Village Voice ran a contest in the midst of last summer's doldrums asking readers to suggest casting. In the meantime, Altman's movies are showing everywhere. The Long Goodbye is his funniest and most coherent. Elliot Gould simply deteriorated after his performance here as Philip Marlowe--by California Split he was in love with himself, utterly enchanted by his own idiosyncracies. Such narcissism shall not pass. In The Long Goodbye he's genuinely interesting--he emanates a constant stream of tics...
...centennial celebration ended with a fireworks display Saturday evening, but John Kenneth Galbraith remained unimpressed. Harvard's "Funniest Professor of the Century" said his selection is "not like being named by the Crimson, but still a very great honor...