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...fourth composition ("as yet untitled"), Davidson muted his jarring stop-and-start rhythms and created a gentler, more peaceful aura. He ended his set with a playful, frantic, ironic version of Miles Davis'Milestones. Though he sometimes sounded chaotic, Davidson is no musical anarchist; his compositions were carefully patterned. But now and then his self-imposed experimental conventions seemed to hobble his imagination...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Sight and Sound: Jazz | 12/7/1964 | See Source »

...That's the whole point," Celestino answers. But Celestino, a lifelong, dedicated anarchist, has in fact misplaced the point of things-or rather, has lost his anarchist's well-ordered assurance of their pointlessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death of an Anarchist | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...there any hint that the supernatural is involved. Celestino's death is, rather, superliterary. He is the first character in the history of the novel to be killed by a wholly nonexistent symbol. This is artistic anarchy, which is not a satisfactory way to write about an anarchist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death of an Anarchist | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

Reducing Term. Elizabeth was married briefly to a Wobbly organizer, and carried on a long and tempestuous affair with the colorful Italian anarchist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: End of the Rebel Girl | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

Chehab ruled by doing nothing, at home or abroad. Despising politicians, whom he calls fromagistes (cheese eaters), Chehab would rather let Lebanon boom or bust than go in for planning. In this, he again proved how well he understood his countrymen, for the typical Lebanese is both capitalist and anarchist, and glories in contradiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: The Sweet Era | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

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