Word: breakups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the breakup of the stage & screen team of the Marx Brothers (The Coconuts, Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera), Groucho was on & off radio for ten years before anyone found him particularly funny on the air. Then Producer John Guedel saw him ad lib for ten minutes on a network show when Bob Hope accidentally dropped his script. Shortly thereafter Guedel put Groucho into You Bet Your Life. He still has some qualms: "Having Groucho as emcee of a quiz show is like using a Cadillac to haul coal...
...live in an age of growing self-indulgence," she warned her Mothers' Union audience, which included a turbaned matron from Lagos, "of hardening materialism and of falling moral standards . . . When we see around us the havoc which has been wrought, above all among the children, by the breakup of homes, we can have no doubt that divorce and separation are responsible for some of the darkest evils in our society today...
...Hollywood, Cinemactress Judy Garland, after four years and one child, announced the breakup of her second marriage, to Director Vincente (The Clock) Minnelli (No. 1: Composer David Rose). Said she: "I'm very sorry, but it's true; we're happier apart...
...pressed for lowering of tariffs, abolition of quantitative restrictions (i.e., fixing of how much of certain goods a nation could buy or sell), the breakup of tight little barter and preference blocs. .But the "backward" nations of Asia, Africa and Latin America insisted that, unless their fledgling industries were protected by fences, they would forever remain merely cheap sources of bananas, coffee or jute for the more highly industrialized nations. The delegates of these "backward" nations pointed out that it was only the protective tariff which had made 19th Century America so rich that it could afford to oppose protection...
This need for creativeness was the basis of Berdyaev's antiCommunist, anti-capitalist social philosophy, which he called "personalism." Like most 20th Century thinkers, he saw the contemporary world as in a state of flux between the final breakup of an old civilization and the beginning of a new. Christians, he argued, must concentrate...