Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:22:52 -0700
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 8/14 CLIFFORD ODETS


Daily Bleed in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0814.htm

Excerpts:

August 14

                     we kept the faith
                     while the four directions of the world
                     decayed into real estate...

                     & buy as much as we can
                     of the little mementos
                     of the history we threw away

                      --- Troy Skeels, excerpts, The Song of the Tourist

1765 -- Stamp Act riots begin in Boston.

1815 -- US: Peace Society founded in NY.

1867 -- British novelist/playwright John Galsworthy lives

1888 -- Black Rain at Cape of Good Hope.

1908 -- Illinois declares martial law following Springfield race riot.

1909 -- Violinist Hezekiah "Stuff" Smith lives.

1912 -- Got Interest?: U.S. Marines sent to Nicaragua, which was in
default of loans to the U.S. &  Europe.

1923 -- Felix the Cat debuts in a Sunday comic strip.

1943 -- Bad Dude? Alfred Corn, formerly mild-mannered,
meditative American poet now stuck in  NYC, lives.

    "BleedMeister --
   Just found your Website on birthdays of notable people . . .
   Not so sure I'm all that mild-mannered . . .
      Since 1965 have lived in New York City,
      where no mild-mannered individual would survive for long."

                                            --- Alfred Corn

             The trivia, the nickel-and-dime of memory
             Is hardest to accept, burning a hole
             In decorum's pocket . . .

1947 -- India achieves independence from British rule after
years of Gandhian resistance.

1951 -- Spain: José Luis Facerias is assassinated by the
police in Barcelona.

1956 -- Social & ideological reformer of the theater,
Bertolt Brecht dies in East Berlin.

             What is the robbing of a bank compared to
             the founding of a bank?

1963 -- Broken by McCarthyism, left playwright Clifford Odets dies

1966 -- London's Catholic Herald calls John Lennon's apology for his
remark about the Beatles being more popular than Lenny Bruce,
probably true.

   If you can't say "Fuck," you can't say, "Fuck the government."

                                     --- Lenny Bruce

1980 -- After 2 months of labor turmoil, 16,000 Polish workers
seize the Lenin Shipyard

1994 -- Alice Childress, dies

2000 -- US: Democratic Convention, Los Angeles, Ca., 14th-17th.

"The twentieth century has been characterised by three
developments of great political importance:
                > the growth of democracy; the growth of corporate
power;
                > and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of
                > protecting corporate power against democracy."

--- Alex Carey (from "Taking the Risk Out of Democracy)



"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."


      --- Edward Abbey, anarchist, novelist, Earth First!er,
     reminding us that "corporate-sponsored" environmental activities
     is a rather bad joke.

     ---anti-copyRite 2000 & thereabouts more or less