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...There was quite a bit of pressure on us not to invite speakers who would embarrass the University," Bellah says, adding that the pressure never came from Conant himself...
...Conant's] views [on Communism] were quite clear at the time, but I don't think he had the time to care about this sort of thing," Bellah says...
...Bellah also noted that most student debate at the time arose from within the left, in the conflict between liberal and radical students, as many liberals struggled to avoid being branded as Communists...
...Bellah, however, paints a different picture of the Harvard reaction. He says that while students were aware and concerned about what was going on outside of Harvard, few were courageous enough to openly challenge freedom of speech violations...
...could have intense discussions at the dinner table, but that didn't result in any kind of activity that would have a real effect on events," Bellah says. "No one got agitated about it, because if you started talking about the Bill of Rights, you were branded a Communist...