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 | | The case became the "cause celebre" for prominent figures of the time, including George Bernard Shaw, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Katherine Ann Porter, Maxwell Anderson and Felix Frankfurter, who believed that Sacco and Vanzetti were the innocent victims of a strongly biased and red-baiting judicial system. |
 | | Publicized relentlessly by their attorney Fred Moore, the case became a cause clbre among artists, writers and activists of the political Left, who believed the men were condemned less on evidence than on their unpopular radical politics and immigrant status. |
 | | During the first half of an opera, in this case Act One, we are exposed to the characters and their pasts, and we experience the events leading to the climax of the action. |
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