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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:51:22 -0700
From: Recollection Books <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 4/17 CONSTANTINE CAVAFY


Web version: http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0417.htm

excerpts:

APRIL 17

CONSTANTINE CAVAFY
Gay Greek, poet of spare, ironic subtlety.

FEAST OF RANDOM WALKS.


1414 - Isabelle la Boulangere fined for performing an act
of prostitution on this day (it was Easter Sunday.)

1680 - Death of Kateri Tekakwitha, first Indian Roman
Catholic nun, from self-inflicted penitential wounds.
In 1980, 300 years later, she becomes first American
Indian to be beatified by Roman Catholic church.

1695 - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, outstanding lyric poet,
dies n Mexico City. Entered a convent so she could
dedicate her life to learning & assembled a 4,000
volume library.

1824 - Slavery abolished in Central America.

1833 - Arthur Arnould lives, Dieuze (the Moselle). French
journalist, novelist, member of First International & the
Paris Commune, companion of Michael Bakunin. Collaborated
on the "Bulletin of the Jurassic Federation". Arnould wrote
“L'Etat et la Révolution” (1877), a history of the Paris
Commune, & numerous novels as A. Matthey. See the
Anarchist Encyclopedia page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/ArnouldArthur.htm

1854 - Benjamin Tucker lives, South Dartmouth,
Massachusetts.

“ BENJAMIN TUCKER, SAINT JUNE 22 1998”
American individualist anarchist, publisher, journalist,
propagandist, theorist.

Influenced by Ezra Heywood, William Greene, Stephen Pearl
Andrews, Lysander Spooner, & Josiah Warren.
http://www.pitzer.edu/~dward/Anarchist_Archives/bright/tucker/
http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/tucker/tucker.html
http://www.lib.umich.edu/spec-coll/tucker.htm
http://www.zetetics.com/mac/tir1.htm

1860 - Burning in Hell?: US: First ordinance passed
requiring fire escapes on tenements.

1863 - Gay Greek poet Constantine Cavafy lives
(1863-1933), Alexandria, Egypt. Published only about
poems, well known to English readers from the many
references to his work in Lawrence Durrell's “Alexandria
Quartet”.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kafavis.htm

1864 - Bread & Circuses?: Bread riots in Savannah, Georgia.


1885 - Karen Blixen, aka Isak Dinesen & Pierre Andrezel,
lives (1885-1962), Rungsted, Denmark. Writer whose stories
incorporate themes of Eros, supernaturalism & dreams.
http://www.dis.dk/kultur/karenb/kbtekst.e.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/calendar.htm
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history.html

1894 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Soviet Leader "We will
bury you" Nikita S Khrushchev lives.

Khrushchev himself told British Laborite Aneurin Bevan the
story of how it had been before.

Presidium members, said Khrushchev, drew up a plan to
decentralize the economy after World War II, & Voznesensky,
the chief economic planner, took it to Stalin. "Voznesensky
came back," said Khrushchev, "& told them Stalin had
denounced him as a traitor to socialism. This made them
angry because Voznesensky had merely done what they
had told him to do.

They went to Stalin next day & told him this: that it was
their collective plan, not Voznesensky's; that he had been
unfair to Voznesensky & ought to apologize to him.

`I can't,' said Stalin. ` He was shot this morning.'"

1897 - Thornton Wilder lives (1897-1975), Madison,
Wisconsin.  Declared on his 70th birthday: “"I was
an old man when I was 12; & now I am an old man, & it's
splendid."“
http://www.sky.net/~emily/thornton.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/twilder.htm

1954 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Ike
Eisenhower issues memo threatening uses of atomic bomb
against Red China.

1959 - US: 22 arrested in Times Square for refusing to take
part in civil defense drill, New York City.


1961 - Surreptitiously CIA-backed Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of
Pigs) invasion fails, Cuba. Army of 1,500 anti-Castro Cuban
exiles, mercenaries equipped & trained by the CIA, landed
in an attempt to liberate Cuba from Communist rule. Within
three days, the invasion proves an unqualified disaster; fully
1,200 of the exiles were taken prisoner.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/1857/

1963 - National Football League superstars Paul Hornung &
Alex Karras were suspended for betting on games & associating
with gamblers & "known hoodlums."

1965 - US: SDS leads anti-Vietnam War march in Washington,
DC: 25,000 `March on Washington to End the War in Vietnam.'
I.F. Stone & Senator Ernest Gruening of Alaska are among
the speakers; Phil Ochs, Judy Collins, & Joan Baez sing.

1968 - US: One third of Duke University student body
strikes to protest racial discrimination in hiring of
non-academic staff.

1968 - England: 20,000 in final rally for annual
Aldermaston March, Trafalgar Square, London.

1970 - Johnny Cash performs at the White House at the
invitation of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President
Dick M. Nixon. Nixon asked Cash to perform "Okie From
Muskogee" but he refused since it wasn't his song. Instead,
he sang his number one hit, "A Boy Named Sue."

1971 - US: Seattle Peace Action Coalition leads an anti-war
march of 2,500 from downtown to Seattle Center.

1975 - Cambodian capitol of Phnom Penh falls to Khmer
Rouge forces after five years of war.

1986 - Bessie Head -- South African novelist/short-story
writer -- dies, Bechuanaland, near Botswana. Wrote “When
Rain Clouds Gather” (1969) & “A Question of Power”.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history.html

1986 - Norwegian government rejects participation in
Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars). Box office sales drop as
Luke SkyWalker faces yet another obstacle.

1989 - Eugene Bizeau dies. French vine-grower, pacifist,
anarchist poet & songster, member of the "Muse Rouge" who
fought for his ideals until his death at 105.
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/BizeauEugene.htm


         ... a savage servility

         slides by on grease.

                               — Robert Lowell

--- Anti-Copyrite 2001



   

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