Word: anarchists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apart from what he called "the smelly little orthodoxies contending for our souls." He had enjoyed the painful honor of being wounded by fascists and hunted for his life by the gunmen of the GPU. He had fought against Franco in Spain, but with the wrong mob-the semi-anarchist POUM instead of the Stalinist-sponsored International Brigade. Back in London, he had found himself nudged into near oblivion by the fellow-traveling leftist press. Such experiences toughened his mind and help to explain his standing with today's young left. He was untainted either by success...
...after he ran away from the rules and the problems, Ben Morea finds himself one of the leaders of a community, the street hip community. And when he talks about his people's problems, he sounds more like the leader of an impoverished third world nation than like the anarchist he claims...
...beginning could hardly have been more appropriate. There were the firemen searching the decrepit Teatro degli Animosi (Theater of the Courageous) in the Italian town of Carrara for bombs. Only after they had given the all clear did the Third International Congress of Anarchist Federations call itself to order-of a sort. As it turned out, there was more than enough verbal bombast to compensate for the lack of real bombs...
...anarchists, representing the dissatisfied, the disgruntled and the dyspeptic of 37 nations, had convened for their third postwar conference. On their agenda were such burning issues as "Anarchism v. Marxism in the 20th Century" and "The Perspective for Practical Anarchist Expansion in the Imperialist Bloc." The anarchists made the most of the issues. Under their red and black flags, Robert's Rules of Disorder prevailed, and arguments flared into name-calling and an unending flood of combative press releases...
...cause of Barrault's dismissal was his role in last May's student riots. During the demonstrations, anarchist rebels from the Sorbonne "liberated" the Odéon and turned it into a discussion hall. They also destroyed 50% of the sets, ripped up red velvet seats and urinated on costumes. Barrault wept when he saw the damage, but government officials believed that he tacitly allowed the rebels to take over. Barrault also took the stage to proclaim his sympathy with student goals and to denounce France's "bourgeois culture...