Word: anarchists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like the Last Supper. McKinley was shot, while shaking hands in a receiving line in Buffalo, by a mentally unstable anarchist from Cleveland named Leon Czolgosz (pronounced chol-gosh). The trial ended with the prisoner's confession that he and he alone had done it; he was subsequently electrocuted. What fascinated Friedensohn was that "in every assassination, so many of the same elements recur. People always ask, 'Was there an accomplice?' 'Was the operation performed properly?' 'Were enough safety precautions taken?' And, after the assassination, there's usually a great deal...
...Common. Where Adolf Eichmann sought to evade moral responsibility by claiming that he was following orders, Stauffenberg disobeyed orders in the name of moral responsibility. He had little in common with history's successful assassins. He was no envious leftist loser and loner like Lee Harvey Oswald, no anarchist fanatic like Czolgosz (the man who killed President McKinley), no tribal desperado like Princip (who shot Archduke Ferdinand and brought on World War I). He was rather an honorable officer and gentleman, a colonel on the general staff of the German army. Why, then, did he decide to organize...
...protest--rather than ideology has enabled SDS in the middle phase of its development to include a wide variety of personalities and interests. The organization can claim as members blue-collar militants of the Progressive Labor Party, as well as three-piece suit liberals from ADA. There are anarchist hippies, humanists, Communists and an increasing number of former members of Young Americans for Freedom, a liber tarian laissez faire capitalist group. About 85 per cent of the membership, according to Davidson, serves merely as "shock troops." These are younger members, usually in the "long hair Bobby Dylan syndrome," who turn...
SNOW WHITE, by Donald Barthelme. A zany, explosive adult version of the old fairy tale, told with Joycean zest by a gifted young (36) anarchist in the world of words...
Barthelme is a gifted anarchist in the world of words, and he offers no explanation of his purpose in Snow White. As in Alice in Wonderland, there are plenty of inner meanings and symbols to be found-social, psychological, existential, political. But the search for a point is simply not the point, even though midway through the book the author teasingly provides a questionnaire for grimly (or maybe Grimmly) determined readers. Sample yes-or-no question: "Has the work, for you, a metaphysical dimension? What is it (25 words or less...