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...relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say.” (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading?...
DIED. JOHN GUEDEL, 88, workaholic producer of popular '40s and '50s shows like Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life and Art Linkletter's People Are Funny; in Los Angeles. Before meeting Linkletter in 1941, Guedel got his start writing for TV's Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang comedies...
...friends must have thought - Irving was sooo square! He may even have believed the cornball emotions in his songs. In 1925, Berlin was polishing his song "Always" (which originally began, "I'll be loving you, Mona") around the time he was working with director George S. Kaufman on the Marx Brothers show "The Cocoanuts." Kaufman said he thought "'Always' was a long time for a romance" and suggested to Berlin "that the opening line might be a little more in accord with reality - something like "I'll be loving you Thursday.' But Irving would have none...
...Marx foresaw the end of ethnic nationalism, asserting that people would realize they were linked by economic interests rather than birth or blood. Freud prophesized the end of religious fundamentalism, claiming that belief in a literal God would fall away with the understanding of psychology. And, finally, Einstein's theory of relativity overthrew the concept that time and space were fixed and unvarying, undermining the idea that there was such a thing as absolute truth and pure objectivity...
...wait! Of course, your dissertation-battered TF expects half of those in your section to bail out and suffer the dreaded “five-point deduction from your final section grade.” And if that Grinchy grad student hadn’t decided that no, Marx wasn’t a “flag-toting conformist in disguise”—however amusing it was as you finished your midterm paper at sunrise—you could afford to tell him or her what to do with that five points...