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...most significant events in history are not always immediately recognized for what they are. In school, we learned that the linchpin of the 1920s was the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Today we realize that Robert Goddard's experiments in rocket propulsion during that period were much more important for the distant future. When you look at the Nixon resignation from the perspective of drama, there are few parallels. But as to its cataclysmic properties-well, let's wait...
...least since Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell chaired the committee that decided not to grant clemency to Niccolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, prisoners and Harvard men have had their differences of opinion. A couple of years ago, there was controversy over a book called Violence and the Brain, in which several university-affiliated psychiatrists described psychosurgical approaches to limiting violent behavior that their critics compared to the out-of-favor prefrontal lobotomy. This year, the controversy centered around William J. Curran, Lee Professor of Legal Medicine at the School of Public Health...
...history. In this he is certainly correct. His solution, though, is to cover the whole subject in a chalktalk. This he might have done, and usefully, but not in a 400-page book. Among the subjects not mentioned are the Spanish-American War, the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, the building of the Erie Canal, the suffragettes, baseball, universal secondary education and the establishment of the land-grant colleges, the writing of Thoreau, Melville, Twain, O'Neill, Faulkner, Fitzgerald and Hemingway...
...very interested in your piece about the forgotten Cubans. The way it was written makes me think we may have another Sacco-Vanzetti or Dreyfus Case on our hands...
...Massachusetts. State Superior Court Chief Justice Walter H. McLaughlin called the service's proposal "a smear upon the administration of justice in this Commonwealth." Norfolk County Commissioner James J. Collins cringed at the thought of comparing landmarks like Mount Vernon and Bunker Hill with the Sacco and Vanzetti courthouse, and argued that in their case "justice had been served as well as it could have been with a jury trial." The proposal has yet to be rejected outright, but the odds are that Sacco and Vanzetti have lost again...