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...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...
...Harvard Lampoon Saturday named John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, its "Funniest Professor of the Century" in conjunction with the Lampoon's 100th anniversary celebration...
...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...
Meanwhile Waugh had published his World War II trilogy, Sword of Honour, which Sykes thinks is his best work. The trilogy has, I think, much of value in it, and Waugh's parody of his own Brideshead Revisited is among the funniest passages he ever wrote. But on the whole Sykes doesn't make his judgment stick. Waugh was not the man to interpret an event like the Second World War, and under the stress his humor coarsens and his elegiac tone become saccharine...