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...AMERICAN premiere of Bertolt Brecht's The Days of the Commune is tonight at Sanders, in Cambridge-our own feeble rival to Paris as the setting of the street-barricade species of political activism. One hundred years have passed since the Paris Commune was crushed; the event, a coarse bloom of indigenous French socialism, has been the horror of the bourgeoisie because of its bloodshed and its affronts to property and the delight of the Marxists for reasons roughly similar. Marxists do not relish violence per se, but there is no denying that French history furnishes the most spectacular...
...decided to do nothing and wait for the demolition. But his strategy backfired: a fire broke out three weeks later on an upper floor of the building where a group of street people had started a commune, and the resultant blaze gutted the building. Four firemen were hospitalized when a wall fell on them...
...hall, which was built in 1914 by an order of nuns as a residence for working girls, is surmounted by two earnest Latin mottoes: Dulce Domum (Sweet Home) and Labor Omnia Vincit (Labor Conquers All). The messages accurately reflect Schuyler's atmosphere, which is rather like a tasteful commune for conservatives. Ornate paintings and antique furniture decorate the common rooms; cocktails are served in front of a roaring fireplace before Sunday dinner. The residents periodically hold sedate musicales (no rock or four-letter words), and many of the students belong to Schuyler's wine-tasting society. Everyone...
...thought it unjust. It was then that I began seeing myself as a violent revolutionary." From a follower to a leader was a short step: he helped organize an antidraft demonstration in April 1968. It was "a pathetic flop. I felt impotent and very militant. I joined a commune; I cut off ties with moderates, liberals, anyone who didn't agree with me totally. It's so easy to resign yourself to violence as the only effective way to combat a system you conceive to be fascist. Once you're committed to violence, you reinforce your...
...extraordinary sense of place, of the oppressiveness of place: one sequence has the camera walk slowly in front of benches full of old people sitting in the sun; their tired, unmoving faces say with painful accuracy a truth about America that the 360 pan at Easy Rider's commune supper could only flashily and expensively allude to. And always he's looking at things, trying to get them down, hoping that he'll finally find them assembling into the golden patterns which lay waiting at the end of the experiential rainbow...