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...Lindsay Anderson's tough-minded treatment of adolescent rebellion, leaving out none of its cruelty and poetic beauty. As well as a film with value for the future, If ... is one of the loci classics of late sixties student counterculture. Distin Hoffman's Straw Dogs, playing with it, is even bloodier and makes less sense...
Hall had always called himself a son of Dixie, and by 1914, sure enough, he was in New Orleans, publishing a little magazine called Rebellion. It must have been something of a fond return for him, since New Orleans was the city where Hall had settled at the turn of the century, and where he had gone through a sea change that leaves me almost completely baffled, even more than do the other bits and pieces of his life I've found...
...Klux Klan, an odd fascination because the Klan's political philosophy was based on the crudest sort of racial hatred and Hall himself was for his day an extreme integrationist. He read other things into the Klan, though, none of them things the Klan particularly had--rebellion, pride, struggle against oppression. In a poem in Rebellion, he wrote of the Klansmen...
...pages of Rebellion are full of similar exhortations of comtemporary Southerners, urging them to adopt the Klan's noble, fighting spirit in the war against capitalism, with never a mention of the Klan's primary driving purpose...
...REBELLION, in any event, folded, and Hall moved on, virtually disappearing from 1915 to 1931, when he turned up at Llano. He published books of poetry, returned to New Orleans in the 40s to write a book called Early Labor Struggles in the Deep South, and disappeared again. The New Orleans City Directory lists him sporadically during those years, when he was in his seventies. In 1942 he was listed as assistant librarian at a place called The Nursing Home; in 1949 he was listed as a writer, at a different address. Someone interviewed him in 1950 for a scholarly...