Word: vanzettis
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...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...
These famous words, written by Bartolomeo Vanzetti shortly before his execution with Nicolo Sacco in 1927, may well be sung before long from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House-and quite an aria they would make for Leonard Warren or Giorgio Tozzi. Last week the Met announced that it has taken an option on a Sacco-Vanzetti opera by 55-year-old Composer Marc Blitzstein, to be written on commission from the Ford Foundation...
...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...
...attitude and epitomized an era. Whether with her gaily illicit valentines or her often vibrant cris du coeur, Edna Millay reshaped romantic love into lyrical sex, was one moment a heartbreaker, the next moment heartbroken. She made unconventionality chic, but could also, as in picketing for Sacco and Vanzetti, make protest resonant. There was something of a distaff Byron, about her, and on the stage of the '20s she was one kind of romantic lead as Scott Fitzgerald was another. Gallant, windblown, untidy, she was at once genuine and a little gimcrack, gifted and over-facile, bohemian and childishly...
...analysis of the matter, I commend you to The Legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti (Harcourt Brace, 1948) by G. Louis Joughin and Edmund M. Morgan. Morgan wrote the chapters dealing with this problem. I refer you particularly to pages 15-16, 67-68, 83-90, 98-106, 126-131, 135-137, chapters 5 and page 190. ARTHUR SCHLESINGER...