Word: vanzettis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unscheduled and unofficial alumni Tercentenary activity was the publication of a pamphlet called Walled in This Tomb. A 29-page indictment of the action of A. Lawrence Lowell's committee in upholding the conviction of Sacco & Vanzetti in 1927, the pamphlet was signed by such Harvard Reds as Powers Hapgood, Heywood Broun, John Dos Passes, Stuart Chase, who wanted to know "what happened to the mental processes of ... Alma Mater's President...
Based obviously, if not candidly, upon the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the play has an absorbing story to tell. Mio Romagna's father has been executed for a murder which he did not commit. He was considered a dangerous radical and all the potent forces of conventionalized prejudice united to convict him of a crime which was actually performed by a gangster. The injustice which society foisted upon the father makes an outcast of the Hamlet-like son, forces him into a relentless, selfless pursuit for revenge; not for the joy of revenge itself but for the vindication of his faith...
...superiority" of a community which suffers the most ruthless and undiscriminating literary and dramatic censorship in America--this is the riddle which Mr. Beebe skilfully and sympathetically presents. He shows Boston the home of the Mathers, of Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes and Lowell, and Boston the scene of the-Sacco-Vanzetti riots, the John L. Sullivan fights, the James Michael Curley campaigns. He pictures the irreproachable dignity of State Street and the spectacle of the world's most notorious Tea Party...
...themes. His notion that a nation deserves the Government it gets was put to prose in Both Your Houses which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1933; put to poetry in Valley Forge, which won him a critical A for Effort. In 1928 Playwright Anderson became agitated about the Sacco-Vanzetti case, collaborated with Harold Hickerson on an indignant defense of the accused called Gods of the Lightning. With that celebrated cause still in mind, Mr. Anderson has now fashioned Winterset...
Died. William Goodrich Thompson, 70, indefatigable defense counsel for executed Radicals Sacco & Vanzetti, whose cause he adopted in 1924 (three years after their conviction) and carried valiantly until final defeat in 1927; in Chestnut Hill, Mass...