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Valdes spoke before the Harvard Summer Socialist Club last July, ten days before the Summer School withdrew official recognition of the organization...
...rarely as mad as he was the night he saw Dmitry Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. "Gnashing and screeching, crude, primitive, vulgar," Pravda roared, having prudently reconsidered a published opinion that called the opera "a triumph" after its 1934 debut two years before. Shostakovich withdrew the opera, and off and on over the years, he set to work at revision...
...wounded a U.S. lieutenant, beheaded a Vietnamese cook. A half-mile away, 200 government soldiers at another post heard the battle, but, fearing ambush, dared not go to the rescue (next morning the route they would have taken was found sown with Red mines). After 40 minutes, the Communists withdrew, carrying off enough weapons to arm one of their battalions, plus four captured American advisers.* Because it took Saigon's new revolutionary regime more than a day to supply enough troops for a helicopter-borne counterassault, most of the Reds escaped. Some government troops had been tied down...
Booth enlisted several conspirators in a plan to abduct Lincoln and hold him hostage in exchange for imprisoned Confederate troops, but as his plot disintegrated he decided on murder instead, and a number of the others withdrew. Booth nervously bided his time until he could seize a dramatic moment. He chose the night of April 14, 1865 when Lincoln was to attend a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington. Booth visited the presidential box-No. 7-a few hours before curtain time, saw that the lock on its door was broken...
...until he was 41 did Still have a one-man show. And only a few years later, unlike his close friend Jackson Pollock, he withdrew from what artists not so affectionately call "the arena," or marketplace, to a small farm near Baltimore. His living room is floored with linoleum, and an aging DeSoto is parked in front of his garage. Inside is his one known materialist obsession-a lovingly polished vintage Jaguar touring...