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...different kinds of pasta and bushels of other items. Actually the scene was not the old Les Halles in Paris or the Campo dei Fiori in Rome, but the Quincy Market, a huge, copper-domed structure in Boston, just a cod's throw from the famous old Haymarket. Last week the once-dilapidated Quincy Market reopened after a massive renovation to serve its original purpose: a central market for city dwellers. "It's not just lively and exciting," says Developer James Rouse. "It's important. It will help restore the marketplace to its importance in the central...
Union Maids. A documentary about organizing women workers in the 1930s, this film employs interviews and newsreel footage to create a portrait of the rise of the CIO. We haven't seen this film, to be shown by the Haymarket People's Fund, but it sounds great...
...time to write, and to my great wonder I saw an entire opera put to music by that surprising genius, with the greatest of perfection, in only two weeks." The genius was George Frideric Handel, then 26. The opera was Rinaldo, conceived, composed and staged for London's Haymarket Theater in 1711. Based on an epic about the Crusades by Torquato Tasso, the opera tells the story of the Christian general Rinaldo and the Saracen queen Armida. It is a spectacular mixture of pagan magic, military pomp, vocal fireworks and other trappings of the Italian Baroque operatic style, then...
...busy day, "Junkyard Alley"--as the Columbia-Webster streets district is nicknamed--looks like the Haymarket, with shoppers working their way from yard to yard, looking for the best quality and lowest-priced merchandise. Comparative pricing is as important in this line as anywhere else; experienced junkyard buyers know that prices on identical used parts may vary by 200 per cent in adjacent yards...
...some 40,000 workers in Chicago went out on strike for an eight-hour day, and their ranks almost doubled in four days. On May 4, at a meeting in Haymarket Square to protest a shooting by the police near the McCormick reaper works, a bomb was hurled at the police. A sergeant was killed and about 60 other policemen injured. Eight anarchists were tried in what became the most celebrated case in American labor history. Four were hanged, one committed suicide, and seven years later the remaining three were pardoned by Governor John P. Altgeld, an action that ended...