"There is an element of moral overstrain and a curious lack of humor among American educationists which will perhaps remain a mystery to those more worldly minds that are locked out of their mental universe. The more humdrum the task the educationists have to undertake, the nobler and more exalted their music grows"--Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
John Gilbert: "Ah, the glories of love!"
Greta Garbo: "Mm"--Queen Christina
Dreamed of being in a long TV special about the Titanic.
Dinner was ham.
That Pagliacci chorus we were singing in the choral concert is still going around in my head.
Saw Rouben Mamoulian's Queen Christina (for the second time, I think) at the Cinematheque. Greta Garbo brings some Marlene Dietrich-type sexual ambiguity to the role of a cross-dressing queen in 17th Century Sweden. Pretty corny Hollywood hokum: I barely stayed awake for the famous final closeup.
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