Word: bellah
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Sagan recalls how when HLU introduced a resolution stating that the organization should exclude Communists, Bellah was the only student willing to speak out and identify himself as a member of the Party despite fierce anti-communist sentiment...
...meeting at which the resolution was about to be voted upon, Bellah got up and said, `My name is Robert Bellah, and I am a member of the Communist Party...
...Bellah's openness ultimately made it difficult for him to stay at Harvard...
...graduate fellowship was threatened, and he was pressed to identify members of the Communist Party, even though Bellah had left the Party by his graduate school days, according to an essay he wrote in Beyond Belief...
Although his fellowship was ultimately saved, an offer of a job as a Harvard instructor was made contingent upon similar conditions, so Bellah left the University for good...