Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 07:28:46 -0800
From: "David Brown, Recollection" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Come Lately: 3/28 THERESA OF AVILA



This is her pilgrimmage, as moslems go to mecca, as jews to
the western wall, as japanese to mona lisa in the louvre, she
has come to Corcovado walking in the steps of enchantment.

       ^× Brenda Flanagan, "The Girl From Bahia"

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THERESA OF AVILA
Religious mystic, poet.  Put passion back into the Passion.

SOMETHING ON A STICK DAY.


193 - E-Bay?: Didius Julianus, highest bidder in Praetorian
auction, becomes Emperor of Rome.

1515 - Saint Theresa of Avila lives, Avila, Spain.

1775 - Samuel Johnson delivers a harsh opinion of the late
poet Thomas Gray:

  "Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull
  every where. He was dull in a new way, & that made
  people think him GREAT."

1868 - Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) lives, Nizhni Novgorod
(renamed Gorky in his honor, 1932).  Russian short story
writer, novelist, autobiographer & essayist.

  Dissatisfaction with communist regime leads to exile during
  1920s. In 1931 he returned to Russia & formulated central
  principles of Socialist Realism, which became doctrine in
  Soviet literature. Died suddenly in 1936 -- possibly a
  victim of Stalin. Wrote ^Ó Mother; The Lower Depths.^Ô

  "To an old man any place that's warm is homeland."

1871 - France: Paris Commune, over 200,000 people turn
out at the City Hall to see the Central Committee of the
National Guard abolished by their newly elected officials,
members whose names are read to to the crowd which
acclaims them, making this day a revolutionary festival.
The red flag, raised over all public buildings, emblem
of the Commune.

1909 - Novelist Nelson Algren (^ÓA Walk on the Wild Side^Ô)
lives (1909-1981), Detroit, Michigan. Grew up in Chicago in
a poor Polish neighborhood, served a four-month jail term
for stealing a typewriter. Algren joined John Reed Club &
was editor of the New Anvil, an experimental magazine.
Heavy drinker & gambler, involved with Simone de Beauvoir.

   "Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a
   place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman whose
   troubles are worse than your own."

1911 - Bonnot -- gang bandit -- caught & killed by cops
after months of joyous bank robbing & other escapades.
Many letters had been sent publicizing their actions &
taunting the police.

1915 - Emma Goldman arrested for telling US audience how to
use contraceptives; chooses 15 days in jail over $100 fine.

When Emma began speaking publicly on homosexuality & on
how to practice birth control, the authorities could no longer
tolerate her. She, Margaret Sanger, & others had been
lecturing about birth control generally for years. But
general talk was one thing & telling how to do it was quite
another.

The latter was a crime. On March 28, 1915, addressing a
mixed audience of six hundred people in New York's
popular Sunrise Club, Emma publicly explained for the first
time anywhere in America how to use a contraceptive. . .

Margaret Anderson of "The Little Review" observed,

              "Emma Goldman was sent to prison
              for advocating that women need not always
              keep their mouths shut & their wombs open."

1915 - Switzerland: International Socialist Women's
Conference calls for peace, Berne.

1918 - Canada: 2,000 demonstrate against conscription, in
Quebec; police are forced to retreat into the police
station.

1941 - Virginia Woolf, 59, author/feminist, ends her life
in the River Ouse.

1958 - Jazz conductor W.C. Handy dies.

1960 - Two anti-payola bills introduced in Congress by
Representative Emanuel Celler of New York. He blames
payola for "the cacophonous music called rock & roll"
& claims it would never have achieved popularity,
"especially among teenagers," if not for payola.

1960 - Belt of Scotch?: 20 firemen trying to put out a fire
in a warehouse full of scotch whiskey are crushed by a
collapsing wall after the whiskey explodes, Glasgow,
Scotland.

1968 - Spanish university students march against fascist
government of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader
Generalissimo Franco.

1968 -- France: In Nanterre, suspension of all school
courses  until April 1 because of student unrest.
http://www.home.ch/~spaw2154/chrono.htm

1969 - Anna Louise Strong, former Seattle School Board
member & organizer during the 1919 Seattle General Strike,
dies in Beijing, China.

1972 - Canada: Quebec general strike.

1976 - Organized Crime?: FBI, largest & highest US police
agency, discloses it burglarized the Socialist Party 92+
times between 1960 & 1966.

1979 - US: A Three Mile Island cooling unit fails, leading
to a meltdown that uncovers the reactor's core. Amid the
worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history, it will take
Pennsylvania authorities three days to advise pregnant
women & children to evacuate. Thousands will flee the
Harrisburg area. The men -- apparently born macho
mutants -- hang around for their daily dose.

             "No nuclear reactor is an island."

1983 - Argentina: 96% of the workers out on strike; junta
totters.

1985 - Russian-born muralist Marc Chagall dies.


    "Jehovah the bearded & angry god, gave his worshipers
    the  supreme example of ideal laziness; after six days of
    work, he  rests for all eternity."

     ^×  Paul LaFargue's ^ÓThe Right to be Lazy & Other
          Studies^Ô   (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1907)

--- Auntie-Something, Stick or No-Stick, 2001

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