Word: anarchist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effectiveness," says Hoederer the Pragmatic revolutionary to Hugo his idealistic secretary and future assassin. This dichotomy runs behind the bourgeois display and ultimate vacuity of this production, just as it engenders the futile dilemma in Hugo's life. Hugo is the rich boy turned class traitor and "intellectual anarchist." He seeks the authentic act to validate his totally pure ideology of revolution. Caught in a staggering struggle with his past and his ideal, his identity and his apotheosis, he ends up with "dirty hands." He stamps out the hydra of revisionism, in the person of Hoederer, but he can only...
Armed with a picket bearing the heading "Help Soviet Jewry," Hanna said, "It is absurd to hijack a plane from America but from Russia it's sometimes the only way to get out." Hanna characterized herself as an "ultimate anarchist...
...deaf-mutes, youths whose voices, like many Spaniards', cannot be heard. Yet Tristana is no celluloid editorial. Whatever its impetus, it ends with disguised love. The music of the voices, the soft light, the national tone of resignation illuminate a country of bottomless tradition where even a career anarchist and antichrist like Buñuel must, at last, be overwhelmed by the past...
Nathanael West habitually wore what he called "the smile of an anarchist . . . with a bomb in his pocket." He also carried the bomb. During the '30s, West flipped two high-explosive satires (Miss Lonelyhearts, The Day of the Locust) at Middle America. Hardly anybody noticed. His four novels, which took 14 years to write (1924-1938), earned him exactly $1,280 in royalties. Twenty years after his shocking death he was recognized as the finest and blackest American humorist since Mark Twain went to his bitter end. Now, a young California English professor has at last accorded West...
...Manhattan art gathering really got off the ground until the courtly figure with the walrus mustache and steel-rimmed monocle appeared and someone announced, as someone always did, "Barney's here." Barney was Barnett Newman, abstract painter, self-proclaimed anarchist, celebrated raconteur, the compleat iconoclast. Before his death in Manhattan this month at the age of 65, he provided the most obvious visual link between the generation that produced Abstract Expressionism and the generation that turned to minimal and color-field painting...