Word: marxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members of the Republican Club put down their Wall Street Journals for a moment and taken a hard look at reality, they would never have forwarded the claim that the Social Studies department is a Marxist citadel. Karl Marx is but one of eight theorists, for example, whom sophomores read in their tutorial. Concentrators also pore over the pages of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill, pillars of the political and economic tradition to which the Republican Club is the delinquent heir. Why, each year department chairman David Landes gives a lecture in which he lambastes Marx as a historian...
Using an electron microscope, a team of researchers at the University of California at Davis isolated the virus from the blood of monkeys infected with simian AIDS. In the current issue of Science, Virologist Preston Marx and his colleagues report that when the virus was injected into healthy monkeys, the animals developed the disease. The virus belongs to a family known as retroviruses, which are prime suspects as the cause of human AIDS. Said Marx of the discovery: "It gives us a marvelous opportunity to understand how a specific virus can attack the immune system and destroy...
...ideas, the quintessential and presumably most dangerous part of him, were free, theoretically, to sail in and raise hell up and down the American mind, waving torches, screaming anarchy. Somehow they do not seem that incendiary. Fo's creations sometimes look like Bertolt Brecht being done by the Marx Brothers. The anarchism savors of Duck Soup...
...unlikely totalitarian farce. The central character is a sort of derelict loon who is a professional impostor. Fo took the part himself in the original Italian production, and, obviously, the Fool is essentially Fo. As wonderfully played at the Arena by Richard Bauer, the Fool behaves like Karl Marx masquerading as Dr. Hugo Hackenbush. He is what the Russians call a yurodivy, an elaborately disguised truth seeker, an anarchist-individualist working under deep cover...
Some of the jewels of this library include a first edition of Karl Marx's 1848 Communist Manifesto; practical books describing how to be shrewd businessman in the 18th century; old broadsides which were never bound and served as vehicles of protest; business periodicals which record the social life of past generations; and even "Thomas Mann's renowned treatise in which he defines the doctrine of the balance of trade...