Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Andrew W. Hirshberg '48 sang a series of Western ballads, accompanying himself with the guitar. Between songs he inserted plugs for his sponsors, candidates Paul S. Dollin and Leonard E. Reisman. His performance was only slightly interrupted by the cavorting of a large brown monkey bearing the sign of Murray Budabin on his back...
...Marx Brothers double bill proves anything, it's that the unstable members of any community, the lunatic fringe, are a larger part of the population than might be supposed. Any doubts about this will be speedily refuted by a trip to "Horse-feathers" and "Monkey Business"--where a large group of supposedly respectable people attempt nightly to work mayhem on the property of the Center Theater, while at the same time splitting their own sides. A word of warning, though: you too may discover yourself to be among the unhinged...
After three viewings, you may be able to remember that "Horsefeathers" is the one in which Chico, Harpo, Groucho, and Zeppo careen through Huxley College in a garbage-wagon chariot, among other conveyances. In "Monkey Business' the Marx boys plague the captain, crew, and passengers of an ocean liner like four hyper-thyroid Nemeses. But plots count for nothing when the Marx Brothers are around. In fact, everything counts for nothing--except unending hysterical laughter--when the Marx Brothers are around...
...Tokyo's Ueno Zoo by India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (TIME, Oct. 17). Tokyo's Master Toymaker Jiro Aidawa had promised to make them something free of charge. Last week he displayed his handiwork to the delighted youngsters. It was an animal band. A toy monkey waved a baton, a bear scraped on a fiddle, a giraffe shook a tambourine, an elephant pounded a drum. The tune they would play for Nehru's ear was strictly made in the U.S.A. It was Oh! Susanna...
Anybody with an ambition to write the strangest novel of 1950 will have to beat John Hawkes's first novel, The Cannibal. Written by Harvardman Hawkes at 23, The Cannibal is a dizzying surrealist vision of postwar Germany, in which, among other oddities, a monkey screams "Dark is life, dark, dark is death," a duke hacks a fox to death and invites his landlady to dine on the meat, and one-third of Germany is ruled by a solitary American...