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Katalin Karossy, a Hungarian citizen fresh from Karl Marx University, this year arrived at an emblem of American capitalism, Harvard Business School, looking...
...MIKADO (PBS, Oct. 28, 9 p.m.). Director Jonathan Miller turns the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta into a Marx Brothers-style musical in this English National Opera production, which opens the Great Performances season...
Gorbachev probably didn't reckon with this, and nor did Karl Marx. From its first days, Marxism-Leninism has been peculiarly blind to the potentiality of nationalism to trample like an enraged warthog through the neat corn rows of class theory and inevitable revolution. "National differences and antagonisms between peoples are daily vanishing," wrote Marx and Friedrich Engels in The Communist Manifesto of 1848, "((and)) the supremacy of the proletariat will cause them to vanish still faster." But the same year was the apogee of European nationalist uprisings in the 19th century...
...Karl Marx said that historical events and personalities enact themselves first as tragedy and then, in their repetition, as farce. Some of the imitations and reincarnations of J.F.K. have had traces of the farcical. In 1984 Gary Hart, during the primaries, slipped into a bizarre physical impersonation that had him descending the stairs of airplanes with just the gingerly J.F.K. inclination of bad back and his right hand tucked into his jacket pocket, the thumb protruding in the way that Kennedy's always did. The American voter began to think of Madame Tussaud's, or of Elvis impersonators...
...professional company tries to present a variety of shows, which are, in the words of a theater spokesperson, "not too avant-garde." One of its recent presentations, a hilarious revival of the Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers, went on to have runs in other cities with the same principal actors...