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A History Of Knowledge
What The Modern Age Knew
Chapter 16: Art & Entertainment
Piero Scaruffi (2004) www.scaruffi.com
Edited and revised by Chris Hastings (2013)
“An eye for an eye
makes the whole world
blind”
- Mahatma Gandhi "The size of the lie is a
definite factor
in causing it to be
believed”
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
“We are not shooting
enough professors”
- Lenin’s telegram
"Pacifism is objectively
pro-Fascist.”
- George Orwell, 1942
“What good fortune for
governments that the
people do not think”
- Adolf Hitler
Part 1: The Age Of World Wars
Harlem Renaissance
Entertainment
Literature
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Radio
Cinema
Automobile
Newspaper (cartoons, sports, news)
Leisure Time
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Chorus girls of “Runnin’ Wild” (1923) introduce the “Charleston” (pictured on next slide)
Dance
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Photograph by White Studio. Billy Rose Theatre Collection,
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Dance
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John Carson records first example of “country music” (1923) (pictured on next slide)
Music
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Photograph Country Music Foundation
Music
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What the Modern Age knew Music – Swing
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A black cat crossing your path
signifies that the animal is going
somewhere.
A child of five would understand
this. Send someone to fetch a
child of five.
Comedy – Groucho Marx
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Anyone who says he can see
through women is missing a lot.
Before I speak, I have something
important to say.
Behind every successful man is a
woman, behind her is his wife.
Comedy – Groucho Marx
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Either he's dead or my watch has
stopped.
From the moment I picked your
book up until I laid it down, I was
convulsed with laughter.
Someday I intend on reading it.
Comedy – Groucho Marx
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Humor is reason gone mad.
I must confess, I was born at a
very early age.
Comedy – Groucho Marx
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I didn't like the play, but then I
saw it under adverse conditions -
the curtain was up.
I intend to live forever, or die
trying.
Comedy – Groucho Marx
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I never forget a face, but in your
case I'll be glad to make an
exception.
I remember the first time I had
sex - I kept the receipt.
Comedy – Groucho Marx
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I've got the brain of a four year
old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid
of it.
Marriage is a wonderful
institution, but who wants to live
in an institution?
Comedy – Groucho Marx
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Military intelligence is a
contradiction in terms.
Military justice is to justice what
military music is to music.
I was married by a judge. I
should have asked for a jury.
Comedy – Groucho Marx
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My favourite poem is the one
that starts 'Thirty days hath
September' because it actually
tells you something.
Outside of a dog, a book is a
man's best friend. Inside of a dog
it's too dark to read.
Comedy – Groucho Marx
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I don't care to belong to any club
that will have me as a member.
Politics is the art of looking for
trouble, finding it everywhere,
diagnosing it incorrectly and
applying the wrong remedies.
Comedy – Groucho Marx
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Quote me as saying I was mis-
quoted.
There's one way to find out if a
man is honest - ask him. If he
says, "Yes," you know he is a
crook.
Comedy – Groucho Marx
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Those are my principles, and if
you don't like them... well, I have
others.
Why should I care about
posterity? What's posterity ever
done for me?
Comedy – Groucho Marx
This is a chapter in Piero Scaruffi’s “A
History Of Knowledge:”
http://www.scaruffi.com/know