Word: haywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outlets for serious social protest in the country. Since the First World War, political and cultural radicalism had followed separate paths in the United States; in more sentimental pre-war days, you could meet radicals from Max Eastman's Masses and Wobblies like Big Bill Haywood at Greenwich Village tango teas--and if there was something frivolous and arty about such political reformers, there was also a close identification on their part with cultural reform. Literature was an ally in the class struggle. After the war, this was no longer true; the political radicals and the Bohemians drifted apart...
...accomplish this, he turns the presiding Judge Haywood (Spencer Tracy) into an active figure, avoiding the conventional image of justice in a trial-drama: aloof if not passive. Haywood, whom Tracy plays with proper naivete and the suspicious honesty of a Maine Yankee, is trying the case of Ernst Janning, a once-eminent judge who bowed to the Nazi definition of justice, and three other members of the Hitler judiciary. As the film unfolds these four figures in the dock represent varying levels of recalcitrance. Janning ultimately acknowledges his guilt; but at the other extreme, Emil Hahn continues to belch...
...Haywood Burns '62, of Lowell House and Peekskill, N.Y., and Christopher Wadsworth of Eliot House and Winchester were chosen Second and Third Class Marshals. The fourth Marshal is Robert E. Kaufmann of Winthrop House and Flourtown...
Only two other Americans had been so honored in death by Moscow, both more than 30 years ago: Author John Reed and Labor Organizer Big Bill Haywood. From the Communist point of view, William Foster was far and away the most deserving: for years the Soviet Encyclopedia has accorded Foster nearly a full page. Foster scrabbled up from the Irish slums of Taunton, Mass., to become chairman of the U.S. Communist Party from 1932 to 1957. Three times he ran for U.S. President on the Communist Party ticket. Early this year, in failing health, he flew off to Moscow...
...Athletics' half of the sixth, Haywood Sullivan's double resulted in two runs when Schilling took the relay from the outfield and tossed the ball into the Sox dugout...