Marx Brothers since he did not join the act until Gummo had departed. As with Groucho, three explanations exist for Herbert's name "Zeppo": Maxine Marx reported in "The Unknown Marx Brothers" that the brothers listed their "real" names (Julius, Leonard, Adolph, Milton, and Herbert) on playbills and in programs, and only used the nicknames behind the scenes, until Alexander Woollcott overheard them calling one another by the nicknames. He asked them why they used their real names publicly when they had such wonderful nicknames, and they replied, "That wouldn't be dignified." Woollcott answered with a belly laugh. Woollcott did not meet the
Specters of Marx Specters of Marx Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International () is a 1993 book by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. It was first presented as a series of lectures during “Whither Marxism?”, a conference on the future of Marxism held at the University of California, Riverside in 1993. The title "Spectres of Marx" is an allusion to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' statement at the beginning of "The Communist Manifesto" that a "spectre [is] haunting Europe." For Derrida, the spirit of Marx is even more relevant now since the fall