Leo Marx (November 15, 1919 – March 8, 2022) was an American historian, literary critic, and educator. He was Professor of the History and Philosophy of...
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"Chico" Marx (/ˈtʃɪkoʊ/ CHIK-oh; March 22, 1887 – October 11, 1961) was an American comedian, actor and pianist. He was the oldest brother in the Marx Brothers...
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Pastoral Ideal in America is a 1964 work of literary criticism written by Leo Marx and published by Oxford University Press. The title of the book refers...
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The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act that was successful in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in 14 motion pictures from 1905 to 1949. Five...
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society tend to enthusiastic about the future and the changes it will bring. Leo Marx gives an example of the busy, noisy urban life disrupting the peaceful...
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doi:10.2307/1945535. JSTOR 1945535. S2CID 146966835. Smith, Merritt; Marx, Leo (1994). Does Technology Drive History?: The Dilemma of Technological Determinism...
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country and in particular the life of a shepherd. This is summed up by Leo Marx with the phrase "No shepherd, no pastoral." The second type of the pastoral...
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children, Arthur Marx and Miriam Marx. His second wife was Kay Marvis (m. 1945–1951), née Catherine Dittig, former wife of Leo Gorcey. Marx was 54 and Kay...
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desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight", while Leo Marx noted that Thoreau's stay at Walden Pond was an experiment based on his...
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that the scrivener may reflect Melville as disenchanted writer or artist, Leo Marx connected the story's theme of alienation with Melville's experiences and...
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Duck Soup (1933 film) (redirect from Duck Soup (Marx Brothers))
and Nat Perrin) and directed by Leo McCarey. Released by Paramount Pictures on November 17, 1933, it stars the four Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico...
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controversy. Some say that Twain experienced a "failure of nerve," as critic Leo Marx puts it. Ernest Hemingway once said of Huckleberry Finn: If you read it...
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physician and lecturer Leo Marx (1919–2022), professor at MIT Louis Marx (1896–1982), American toy maker and businessman Mona Magdeleine Marx; known more commonly...
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the novel and its characters in a broader historical context. In 1964, Leo Marx argued in The Machine in the Garden that Fitzgerald's work evinces a tension...
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Nash Smith: founder of the "Myth and Symbol School" of American criticism Leo Marx: The Machine in the Garden (study of technology and culture) Leslie Fiedler:...
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1999 not awarded 2000- 2000: Silvio A. Bedini 2001: Robert C. Post 2002: Leo Marx 2003: Bart Hacker 2004: David Landes 2005: David E. Nye 2006: Eric H. Robinson...
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Thomas P. Hughes, "Technological momentum," in Merritt Roe Smith and Leo Marx, ed., Does Technology Drive History?: The Dilemma of Technological Determinism...
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at the University of Minnesota, where his advisor was Henry Nash Smith. Leo Marx, another Smith student was also on the faculty, and he and Ward became...
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Leo Bernard Gorcey (June 3, 1917– June 2, 1969) was an American stage and film actor, famous for portraying the leader of a group of hooligans known variously...
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Doak 2006. Davidson 1985, p. 12. wga 2022. Krén & Marx 2022. Doak, Robin Santos. (2006). Pope Leo X: Opponent of the Reformation. Compass Point Books...
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August] 1828 – 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and...
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essays by FOM and essays and statements by friends and scholars including Leo Marx, Paul Sweezy, Alfred Kazin, Corliss Lamont, Kenneth Murdock, May Sarton...
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Sennett, Peter Gay, Ashis Nandy, Richard Goodwin, Harvey Cox, Frank Manuel, Leo Marx, Jonathan Schell, Raoul Hilberg, Sudhir Kakar, David Dellinger, Dan Berrigan...
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Latour David C. Lindberg G. E. R. Lloyd Jane Maienschein Anneliese Maier Leo Marx Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) John E. Murdoch (1927–2010) Otto Neugebauer (1899–1990)...
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Fitzgerald, Chapter IX, The Great Gatsby In 1964, historian and literary critic Leo Marx argued in The Machine in the Garden that Nick Carraway's decision to return...
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belief held by many Chinese reformers in the early 20th century. Historians Leo Marx and Bruce Mazlish asking, "should we in fact abandon the idea of progress...
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" According to György Marx, the extraterrestrial origin of the Hungarian scientists is proved by the fact that the names of Leó Szilárd, John von Neumann...
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1999 not awarded 2000- 2000: Silvio A. Bedini 2001: Robert C. Post 2002: Leo Marx 2003: Bart Hacker 2004: David Landes 2005: David E. Nye 2006: Eric H. Robinson...
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1999 not awarded 2000- 2000: Silvio A. Bedini 2001: Robert C. Post 2002: Leo Marx 2003: Bart Hacker 2004: David Landes 2005: David E. Nye 2006: Eric H. Robinson...
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the sense that "life would scarcely be thinkable without technology." Leo Marx considered the word "technology" itself as problematic, susceptible to...
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