Word: anarchists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made any real step toward the compromise between feudal past and industrial present that other European nations had made in the centuries since the Renaissance. Spain, like Russia, was ungovernable. At the onset of Franco's revolt against the Republican government, there were more than a million anarchists in Spain. In theory, anarchism is arguable, but in practice it is unworkable. In his total pacifism and good will to all, the anarchist becomes a murderer: Dostoevsky would have felt quite at home in Spain...
...apart from the madmen of the anarchist left, there were the dreamers of the right who had made no gesture towards the modern world since the Inquisition condemned slavery more than three centuries ago. Politics being the art of the possible, politics was impossible to the quixotic impossibilists of Spain-whether right or left...
More than half an hour before the sentencing, the courtroom--which holds around 300--was filled, and betwen 75-100 persons had to be turned away. They were diverted by a pacifist-anarchist who emerged from the courthouse a few minutes after the sentencing began, announcing that "it took three policemen to carry me out. I went limp in the elevator...
...pitier who truly commands stage center in modern drama, fiction and even life. In a narrow and somewhat unfairly argued attack on Pasternak, Fitch claims that Doctor Zhivago is a kind of beat modern Hamlet who "is born in pathos, lives in pathos, peters out in pathos-the artist-anarchist who can never be at home in any system of public responsibility, communist or capitalist...
Blackie is more a knight of the open road than the closed shop. He hops freights from job to job, starves in hobo jungles. He is a philosophical anarchist but a rebel with a lofty cause, the brotherhood of man. Bedeviled by whisky and women, his behavior is far from lofty. He spends half his time righting his course after wronging himself in one inane way or another. Yet labor's first freedom fighters, Dos Passos implies, came from the likes of Blackie Bowman, with his inarticulate urge to dignity and his roundhouse rage for justice...