Word: hille
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Another strong candidate is Massachusetts Secretary of State Kevin White, a man of honest Irish antecedents though he has, as they say in the lace-curtained flats of South Boston, "turned blue"-i.e., taken to mixing with the Yankee aristocracy. But both Logue and White will probably lose Beacon Hill and Back Bay votes, which they badly need, to Harvard-educated Rhodes Scholar John Sears, the first Republican who has had the temerity to run for mayor of Boston in 18 years...
Massed Choirs. They were remarkable radicals, for they had a sense of humor and a singing voice. Many of their songs-Casey Jones, Joe Hill, Solidarity Forever-are still heard. Their goal was one big worldwide trade union, and eventually they established branches from Australia to Scandinavia...
Salt Lake City shopkeeper, Joe Hill was sentenced to death. Before he faced a firing squad, he wired Big Bill Haywood: "Don't waste time mourning. Organize!" Frank Little, "half Indian, half white and all I.W.W.," was lynched by masked men in Butte, Montana, but not before he had said: "Better to go out in a blaze of glory than to give in." When a mob of war veterans stormed I.W.W. head quarters in Centralia, Wash., Wesley Everest was cornered and caught. He sneered: "You haven't got the guts to hang a man in the daytime...
What repression could not fully accomplish, inner dissension did. Some Wobblies-including Helen Gurley Flynn and John Reed-drifted toward Communism. Others slowly eased their way back into society. Ralph Chaplin, as great a labor poet as Joe Hill, turned both conservative and Catholic. English-born Charles Ashleigh became a gold prospector in Mexico...
Robert Kya-Hill, in a white robe with gold trim, is an imposing Prince of Morocco, but he doesn't get out of the part as much as Earle Hyman did a decade ago. (As often done, Morocco's two scenes are fused into one, which is detrimental to the play's structure, such as it is). When he chooses wrong and has departed, Portia points up the racial slur in her tag-line, "Let all of his complexion choose me so." As for the Prince of Arragon, James Valentine makes him a heavily accented and logorrheicninny; and, when...