Word: anarchists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shaw, a great many other institutions--divorce, sex, the church, snobbery, to name a few--are also pulled gently but firmly apart. And, as is also usual with Shaw, he offers no solution or substitute but ends by fitting the broken pieces back together again. Shaw is not an anarchist; he has deftly pointed out the flaws in modern marriage, tough, of course, he has used his butcher's cleaver for the pointing. No one is likely to be leaving Agassiz Theater tonight or tomorrow night as a campaigner against marriage, but he still isn't likely to be cherishing...
...Carried to excess, it grieves the judicious; practiced in moderation, it allays the passions, promotes digestion, placates animosities, and makes for happiness at the domestic hearth . . . No sane man would seek relief in cussing if a safe fell upon him, or a lion bit off his leg, or an anarchist had at him with a bomb, or his wife eloped with the letter-carrier. But on missing a train, or slipping on an orange peel, or losing a collar button, or in the presence of a crying baby, an automatic piano, a political heresy, or an incompetent barber-then...
...goateed Carlo Tresca, a fearless tyranny-hater and an exiled Italian anarcho-socialist. Tresca's Italian-language weekly, Il Martello (The Hammer), publicly accused Vidali-Contreras of many acts of terrorism, and the following specific crimes: 1) the assassination in Barcelona of Camillo Berneri, Italian anarchist, during the Spanish civil war; 2) the murder in Mexico of Tiña Modotti, Vidali's Communist mistress...
...more wishful thinking on the part of his audience, than better artists would dare require. Reality is as much his deadly enemy as it is the superior artist's most difficult love affair. At his best, Saroyan is a wonderfully sweet-natured, witty and beguiling kind of Christian anarchist, and so apt a lyrical magician that the magic designed for one medium still works in another. At his worst, he is one of the world's ranking contenders for brassy, self-pitying, arty mawkishness, for idealism with an eye to the main chance, for arrogant determination to tell...
...destroying the social order. It is this change of mind that becomes the central development of the novel. Ironically, it is the princess who has given him a taste for the culture that revolution would destroy. In the end, he sees the princess give herself to his best anarchist friend. Overwhelmed by the ironies that smother him, Hyacinth commits suicide with the bullet that was meant for the duke...