'I've got to stay here,' snaps Groucho, as Professor Wagstaff, in the Marx Brothers movie Horse Feathers (1932), 'but there's no reason why you folks shouldn't go out into the lobby until this thing ...

We would sit and listen to entire LPs in silence, my family. Our living room was like a chapel, infused with a type of reverence not otherwise common in our home life. I’m not sure how we all felt ...