Word: sacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after a bitter, seven-year battle in court, in the press and in many minds, keep agitating American imaginations. Composer Marc Blitzstein is writing an opera about them, and an off-Broadway producer is planning a musical. This week NBC presents the second installment of its two-part Sacco-Vanzetti Story, billed as a "dramatic interpretation of the much-disputed case." Taken together, the two taped installments provide two absorbing hours, somewhat marred by overly insistent pleading...
...arrested for a robbery and murder, how the case against them grew from the teetering memory of witnesses, and how-standing in a cagelike dock and facing a flower-decked bench-they heard the verdict. This week's Part II deals with the long, futile fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti from the chair-the hunt for new evidence, the repeated appeals, the worldwide furor, and the final confrontation of the accused and their judge as he imposes sentence after Vanzetti's powerful speech: "I am so convinced to be right that if you can kill...
...Sacco-Vanzetti Story (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Presented on this and the following Friday, Reginald Rose's two-part play about Sacco and Vanzetti (Martin Balsam and Steven Hill) begins with the 1920 murder of a South Braintree, Mass, paymaster and payroll guard, traces the arrests and courtroom scenes that were played out before the attention of the world, as many felt that the immigrant defendants were more on trial for their anarchistic beliefs than for murder...
...young authors, e.g., Hemingway, whom he introduced to the public, but he missed on some. Robert Frost recalls his rejection: "We are very sorry but at the moment the Atlantic has no place for vigorous verse." A longtime liberal who used the columns of the Atlantic to champion Sacco and Vanzetti, Sedgwick faced a torrent of criticism in 1938 when he wrote articles for the New York Times praising Franco's movement in Spain...
...young music student in the '20s, Composer Blitzstein (Regina, The Cradle Will Rock) was an avid follower of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. He felt, like many other Americans, that the two anarchists were innocent and "were not being executed for what they were tried for" (shooting down a paymaster and his guard in a 1920 payroll holdup in South Braintree, Mass.). In 1932 Blitzstein used the theme for a one-act opera titled Condemned. The work was never produced (it was burdened with, among other things, four choruses), and Blitzstein says he forgot all about it. Last summer...