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ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST by Dario...
Both frolicsome and mordant, Fo's work is beginning to find American audiences. The Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., has undertaken one of his better-known leftist carnivals. Accidental Death of an Anarchist, written in 1970, is based on the actual case of an Italian anarchist named Giuseppe Pinelli. Accused of terrorism, Pinelli is said to have jumped to his death from the fourth-floor window of Milan police headquarters. Fo suspected, and a later investigation proved, that Pinelli was pushed out the window by the police...
Orwell was enchanted, "breathing the air of equality." A hotel manager scolded him for offering a tip to an elevator operator; barbers posted anarchist placards by their chairs announcing that they were no longer slaves. The signs of class he so detested in his own country had disappeared: "Except for a small number of women and foreigners there were no 'well-dressed' people at all. Practically everyone wore rough working-class clothes, or blue overalls, or some variant of the militia uniform. There was much in it that I did not understand, in some ways...
...judgment on a century that finally learned to accommodate him. If the book offers any shocks, they are of the boomerang variety: the iconoclast at twilight is in danger of becoming a moralist. He condemns "the proliferation of gutter words" in modern literature; he criticizes the excesses of his anarchist comrades in the Spanish Civil War; he expresses relief in the waning of his sexual desire ("It's as if I've finally been relieved of a tyrannical burden"). It would seem that the only way the old surrealist can shock today's audience is by exposing...
...very interesting story of September 27 about Professor Sacvan Berkovitch and the origin of his first name. The Crimson stated that the famous anarchist Sacco and Vanzetti, "were hanged in Boston for treason during the Red Scare." They were not indicted for treason but for killing a guard during an armed robbery, and they were not hanged but electrocuted, as I have first-hand reason to know...