Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BRIEF AGAINST DEATH, by Edgar Smith. An impassioned did-I-do-it? written in the New Jersey death house by the convicted murderer of a 15-year-old girl...
...Sammy Davis Jr., who last season turned his here-come-de-Judge antics into a rollicking miniballet, now reports that when he strolls through a Negro neighborhood, all the kids trail after him squealing the phrase in chorus. It would be only moderately surprising if next week J. Edgar Hoover popped onto the screen and said, "Here come de Judge...
Still, what Ruggles has produced is powerful, direct, dense, thoroughly modern American music. In the 1920s and 1930s, when he wrote most of it, he was considered to be every bit as original and daring as his composer pals Edgar Varèse (whom he always called "Goofy") and "Charlie" Ives. The correctness of that judgment again became clear last week at Bennington, Vt, where Ruggles' friends, colleagues and neighbors staged a concert of his complete works. There were a song cycle, Vox damans in Deserto, a piano suite called Evocations and a short composition for muted brass called...
...March 5, 1957, the body of 15-year-old Schoolgirl Victoria Zielinski, her brains splattered about, was found along the bank of a sandpit in Mahwah, NJ. Within three months, Edgar Smith, 23, a knockabout machinist, was charged, tried, found guilty and sentenced to death for her murder. Eleven years later, challenging the death-house limbo record set by Caryl Chessman, Edgar Smith is still alive, fighting-and writing-for his life...
...this is a book that must be judged on its own special terms. "Is Edgar Smith guilty?" Author Smith asks on the penultimate page. "If at this point the reader cannot respond with an emphatic 'yes', then I shall consider this book a success." Most readers will feel that he has raised sufficient doubts about the case, but many will wish that their response could have been more enthusiastic...