Word: harpo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YEARBOOK'S editors have relied heavily on interviewing this year to get across substantive issues, and the result should warn them against repeating the technique next year. Most of the interview texts are way too long-particularly a multi-page monster with Laurence Senelick, director of HARPO. The book opens with a few pages of comments by Adam Ulam, professor of Government, and Reuben A. Brower, professor of English, who are asked to compare today's students with their ancestors of the early sixties. Their replies produce little of interest, but some of Brower's remarks are worth looking over...
...walk-off is the bittersweet image by which, undoubtedly, Chaplin wishes to be remembered. But beyond his own films is a far more valid reason for remembrance. Since the '20s, international screen comedians have owed their art to him; Harry Langdon, Laurel and Hardy, Harpo Marx, Abbott and Costello, Jerry Lewis, Peter Sellers, Fernandel, Danny Kaye, Cantinflas, Jacques Tati ... all were born in a tip of the Chaplin chapeau...