Word: marxianism
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...course of [my] work I began naturally to form bonds of personal friendship and I had to conceal from them my own thoughts. I used my Marxian philosophy to conceal my thoughts in two separate compartments. One side was the man I wanted to be. I could be free and easy and happy with other people without fear of disclosing myself because I knew the other compartment would step in if I reached a danger point...
...priest called all parties together for a raffle, and the united effort yielded 70,000 lire. Then dissension began. The Communists and the Christian Democrats each wanted sole credit for restoring the people's clock. They battled each other step by step through a fog of imprecations and Marxian dialectic until, via interminable compromises, the clock was eventually restored...
...three erring Communists knew just what to do. They immediately issued a standard confession, admitting their error and endorsing their own censure. This reversal reminded the Ceylon Daily News of another Marxian "crisis" wherein Groucho, feeling the pulse of an unconscious woman, looks up at his audience and says, "Either this woman is dead or my watch has stopped...
...Marxian formula is simple, scriptless, and enormously successful. Each couple of contestants (three for each half-hour show) is given $20 and a chance to bet on their answers to questions in a given field. Quizmaster Groucho perches on a stool by the microphone, and chats with them between questions. He encourages them to tell their life stories, and as they talk, he festoons the impromptu dialogue with strings of rapid-fire gags, or simply guides his victims into verbal traps and lets them writhe. "Women are the best ones on this program," says Marx, carefully flicking cigar ashes...
...present revolution in China is not a Marxian revolution but a sociological one," Wilburn T. Thomas, expert on Asia, told a meeting of the Appleton Club in the basement of Memorial Church last night...