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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

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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

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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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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

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This is a chapter in Piero Scaruffi’s “A

History Of Knowledge:”

http://www.scaruffi.com/know