Word: spartacus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hamburg's citizens have been normally in the vanguard of trouble. They had rioted during the 1918 Spartacus Putsch and spearheaded the abortive 1923 Communist insurrection. Hamburg once had Germany's largest percentage of Communists, later it went enthusiastically Nazi. Last week Hamburg went to extremes once more...
...Committee of Free Germany. It consisted of German Communists and fellow travelers, most of whom were refugees from Hitler's Germany. Most important among them was the German Communist and ex-Reichstag deputy Wilhelm Pieck, who with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht had organized Germany's 1919 Spartacus revolution (TIME...
...necessary to sacrifice the Bolshevik Revolution for the sake of a successful Communist Revolution in Germany, the key country of Europe? In Berlin, history in the peculiar form of Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht and Wilhelm Pieck, now a member of Moscow's Free Germany Committee, had begun the Spartacus revolt against the Weimar Republic. It was Communism's first bid for control of Germany. It failed when Liebknecht and Luxemburg were killed and their bodies thrown in the Spree Canal...
...correspondent in Spain, he was captured by the Fascists, sentenced to death and released when the British Government intervened; in Cairo he once edited a German-Arabic weekly; in Haifa he once hawked lemonade in the streets. In 1939 he published a historical novel, The Gladiators, about the Spartacus revolt. From Darkness at Noon, it is obvious that he also knows Russia and the deep places of the human mind...
...martyred pathfinder, before 7000 B.C. prototype of Osiris, of Jesus, of the Artist; 2) a dim-witted burglar vivisected by Alexandrian scientists (Result: "We have now proved . . . that the arteries circulate air to the body from the lungs. ... It makes a man proud to be a doctor"); 3) Spartacus and his terrific slave revolt, disappointingly told; 4) the Emperor Tiberius, "a martyr to man's habit of tyrannizing over his fellowman." The four with the U. S. as their setting are studies respectively of cowardice, burnt-out genius, sexual fever as a product of Mississippi Valley boredom, acute alcoholism...