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...Paul A. Marx, of Somerville, had been a history of architecture instructor at the Harvard Extension School since...
...movies in his enormously successful Andy Hardy series). Rooney, incidentally, was No. 1 at the box office that year. Greta Garbo laughed, as the ads triumphantly proclaimed, in Ninotchka; Ingrid Bergman made her American debut in Intermezzo; Marlene Dietrich saved her flagging career with Destry Rides Again; the Marx Brothers clowned in At the Circus; and Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers danced through The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle. Judy Garland, who was all of 16, was in only two pictures -- The Wizard of Oz and Babes in Arms -- but her giant talent and irresistible personality captured the screen...
Alexander cites the example of Karl Marx in arguing that a person's scholarly contributions should not be dismissed because of questions about that individual's personal life. Recent evidence has shown that Marx was Victorian in his lifestyle and was a sexist who refused to support an illegitimate child, Alexander says...
...Does that mean that Marx's theory wasn't a theory of liberation of oppressed groups?" asks Alexander, who says there are many other instances of social scientists whose lives have contradicted their scholarship...
...plans its attack, the authorities are planning a coup of their own. "This could be one of the biggest busts this decade," Agent Tess Toster-one (George Zlupko '89) declares. Two sidekick Marx brothers, police underlings for Tess Tosterone, offer little humor and merely scurry in and out of the way. However, the chief agent's wonky son. Tom Collins (Jon Blackstone '90), is hilarious...