Word: monkeyism
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...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...
...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...
...holiday season came to subequatorial South America on the crest of a blistering heat wave. In Santiago, Chileans sipping their traditional cola de mono (monkey's tail-milk, cinnamon, and coffee laced with aguardiente), fanned themselves as the thermometer climbed to 93°. At Viña del Mar and Uruguay's Punta del Este, beaches were jammed. So was the graceful white curve of Rio's Copacabana, where young cariocas, lampooning a recently revived city ordinance against walking to the beach in bathing suits, donned dinner coats or silver-fox jackets over their beachwear...
...built up the Farmer chiefly by weeding out the gone-to-seed circulation lists, and harvesting new readers with contests and prizes ranging from Bibles to tractors. Says he: "I don't think very many people down here buy magazines because they want the magazine. They get a monkey wrench or something and the magazine is thrown in ... I don't know what they do with the Farmer-stick it down the toilet, maybe . . . but they continue...