Word: sacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purchased this day's issue of your paper for one of the front-page stories and read with interest "From Radicalism to Puritanism, Sacvan Bercovitch Searches On." I quote: "Like the other radicals of the 1920s, she was riled by the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, the famous anarchists who were hanged in Boston for treason during the Red Scare...
...rule. In 1977, Robert D'Attillo, a local historian, launched an unusual challenge to this regulation. D'Attillo wanted access to a sealed package of former President A. Lawrence Lowell's papers. To examine letters Lowell had written while serving on a 1927 governor's committee to review the Sacco and Vanzetti trial...
Though Bercovich has never lived in Boston, his arrival at Harvard in the fall will in a strange way be kind of a homecoming. His "idealistic" mother, he said, named him after Sacco and Vanzetti, the famous anarchists who were executed for treason in Boston during the "red scare" of the 1920s. "In a way," Bercovich chuckled, "I'll be returning to the scene of the crime...
...Hollywood at the end of World War II, or a subcareer as visiting professor at Stanford-quite explains the paucity of her output (one novel and fewer than 30 stories). All her life Katherine Anne fought a mysterious writer's block. Jailed for protesting the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, she failed to convert that experience into literature in 1927, and failed again for the 25th anniversary. It was not until 1977 that a small book emerged; The Never-Ending Wrong was her last publication. The Nazis she met in Berlin in 1931 materialized in Ship of Fools...
...fund had its origins in Brandeis's fruitless efforts, through Frankfurter, to stop the 1927 execution of Sacco and Vanzetti: in total, more than $50,000 passed from Brandeis to Frankfurter, before the latter joined the bench in 1939, an appointee of President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, for whom he--like Brandeis for Wilson--had become an inner-circle adviser...