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Renoir's Toni (1934), with Black Stage, a 1919 Harold Lloyd short, Thursday, Oct.2, at 7:30; Reed: Insurgent Mexico, by Paul Leduc, Sunday, Oct. 5, at 7:30. Both one dollar...
...rallying the members of the International Workers of the World to close the Paterson silk mills; storming the Winter Palace in Leningrad, shoulder to shoulder with the Bolsheviks in 1917--this is the stuff of which a radical's fantasies are made. Indeed, the entire adult life of John Reed '10 reads like a travelogue of the great events of the first two decades of this century. It is a long way from Portland, Oregon, where Reed was born in 1887 to a prosperous family, to the Kremlin in Moscow where he was buried in 1920--the only American ever...
...Reed was an outsider at Harvard. Not coming from the clique of Eastern establishment families that sent its sons to Groton, Exeter, and Andover, he found it impossible to crack the club system in his sophomore year. In one of his more ignominious moments, Reed told his Jewish roommate, Carl Binger, that they could not live together, because it would hamper Reed's chances of gaining membership in the Hasty Pudding Institute. Reed preferred football games and social functions to participation in Walter Lippmann's newly formed Socialist Club...
Following graduation and a six-month sojourn in Europe, Reed settled down in Greenwich Village where he got a job on Max Eastman's New Masses. Here Reed came into contact with artists and intellectuals--Van Wyck Brooks, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Max Weber, and Eugene O'Neill among them--who pushed the tenor of political consciousness in the Village toward the Left...
...Reed's own experience, his observation of the Paterson silk strike in 1913, that radicalized him. He saw the lengths to which state and capital would go to crush any expression of solidarity among the workers. The lesson was reiterated a year later for Reed by the state militia's massacre of striking coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado...