Word: kropotkin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first few months, the show's armchair guests (at $25-$50 a case) were dilettanti like Princess Kropotkin, Gelett Burgess, Deems Taylor, Lillian Hellman, Margaret Bourke-White. They were given to sniffing up recondite alleys: Lillian Hellman was the only one to show on-the-scent results, solving the mystery of Napoleon's razor in a nick. This month the show tried picking its detectives from fans who write in. More like flatfeet than fancy-dans, the unpaid fans not only proved uniformly baffled, but dull. So last Sunday a group of experts from Hollywood appeared. One, Mystery...
...Anarchism is an affair of terrifying beards. As a matter of fact, "The Father of Anarchism," the late great Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who died in 1865 had only a "Newgate Frill" (fringe of whiskers) around his placid countenance. The last of the internationally great Anarchist thinkers, Russian Prince Peter Kropotkin, who was the perfect prototype of "Bearded Anarchist", expired peacefully near Moscow in 1921. Not international thinkers but intensely local Barcelona doers by "direct action" are Newshawk Duranty's new news subjects. Anarchist Durruti goes so far as to scoff contemptuously at the Spanish Government, friendly though...
Miss Goldman, who came to Boston to give one of a series of lectures on her book, "Living My Life," said that there are two main anarchist schools of thought: the individualistic philosophy of anarchism expounded in America by Benjamin R. Tucker, and Prince Peter Kropotkin's anarchist-communist philosophy of mutual aid. "I am a disciple of Kropotkin," she said. "I believe in voluntarily organized groups as a system of government, as was the original plan after the first Russian Revolution...