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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