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...Seneca’s annual Red Party was devoid of communist ideology and Karl Marx was not invited...but that didn’t stop hundreds of students from attending. The event, held last Thursday night at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge, was a success. The Red Party, a Seneca tradition started nine years ago, was previously held in the Roxy, a Boston club, before a 2007 Boston law restricted entry into nightclubs to prevent underage drinking. According to Emma Moretzsohn ’09, the president of The Seneca, the group chose to keep the event open to everyone...
...blaming to do. Frankly, Harvard seems destined to a lofty place in the bourgeois cosmos, today re-established after decades of deviation from the path of the Boston Brahmin, all of us again participating in just the “naked self-interest” Marx inveighs against in his manifesto. No one expresses more than a tinge of voiceless, ‘moral’ disgust at the flagrant, moustache-twirling greed of those attending info session after Goldman Sachs info session; these shock troops of the global market get a free pass (except of course from the aging...
...litism" in proper historical context. George Will located Obama securely in Adlai Stevenson's wine cellar, representing the effete strand of liberalism that corrupted F.D.R.'s party of the working people. William Kristol went straight for the main chance, positing Obama as a direct descendant of - yes - Karl Marx, who famously proclaimed religion to be the "opiate" of the masses. As the Marx meme fluttered across Fox News, you could almost hear the vast sigh of relief: Obama's gaffe had put Republican propagandists back in their comfort zone. Rather than fight a defensive election over the Bush debacles...
...Even during The Great Depression, Americans managed to scrape together enough nickels to take in escapist fare like Marx Brothers comedies and monster flicks. Box office grosses rose during five of the last seven economic downturns in the U.S. - including the '70s oil crisis and the burst of the dot-com bubble in the early 2000s. It's not just a ticket price bump that accounts for the extra dough, either - the total number of movies people see in a year tends to rise in recessionary periods...
...Solo and Groucho Marx enticed audiences to the box office in bad times, but they didn't have to compete with hundreds of cable channels and home theater systems as unspeakably powerful as the Death Star, did they? "That makes it a little harder to predict," concedes Dergarabedian. "But I still think the recession will have a negligible effect. If anything, you might see people cutting back on concessions." That's what belt-tightening looks like in the America in 2008 - popcorn movies without popcorn...