Word: vanzettis
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...life, however, he at least practiced what he preached. He was an old-fashioned liberal who was never afraid to act. He worked tirelessly in behalf of the poor of Hull House, or crusaded for Sacco and Vanzetti, or thrust himself to the forefront of the fray wherever he spotted a Cause. "As the philosopher has received his problem from the world of action," he once wrote, "so he must return his account there for auditing and liquidation." Last week, John Dewey. long ill in his Manhattan apartment, finally settled his account. At 92, he left the world still growing...
...Male Animal. Gay comedy, gaily revived, of a Milquetoastish professor menaced in class by a Vanzetti letter, at home by a varsity letter man (TIME...
...interest. He worked actively to bring the government closer to the people. He lectured all over the country and around the world. Several times Dewey traveled abroad to investigate matters of international concern. He also pointed out the faulty methods used by the Lowell Committee in investigating the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, and at 78 he journeyed to Mexico to hear Leon Trosky's defense against the charges of the Russian purge trials...
...case in living memory, not even the Dreyfus or the Sacco-Vanzetti cases, split a nation so sharply into two camps. The other two cases touched passions that were primarily political. The Hiss-Chambers case has stirred the whole spirit of the time. The conflicting forces of the 20th century-religious, social and political-beat over it in fierce waves...
Trouble starts for the professor when he wants to read one of Vanzetti's letters to his class: a reactionary trustee sniffs redness in his politics. Trouble mounts when his wife's old football-playing beau turns up, and the professor feels forced to show the redness in his blood. With liquor for a weapon, the male animal slays the Milquetoast in him; and in a very funny drunk scene, he elects to hold his mate-as swans and bull elephants do -by fighting for her. He does hold her-if only because the football player couldn...