Word: blacklisted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five unidentified Harvard scientists are reported by the New York Times to be among the 48 researchers named in a new blacklist compiled by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
...knows whether he is on the blacklist or not," said Nobel laureate George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology. He referred to the resurgence of government security pressures as "a conspiratorial phenomenon," and said he was "shocked, but not too surprised" by the report...
...fifties, the most effective sanction was terror. Almost any publicity from HUAC meant the "blacklist." Without a chance to clear his name, a witness would suddenly find himself without friends and without a job. But it is not easy to see how in 1969 a HUAC blacklist could terrorize an SDS activist. Witnesses like Jerry Rubin have openly boasted of their contempt for American institutions. A subpoena from HUAC would be unlikely to scandalize Abie Hoffman or his friends...
...battle calls instead of dying of his wounds, then by blowing up the fort that is about to be stormed in the film's big fight scene. The enraged director fires him, and arranges to have the name Hrundi V. Bakshi inscribed on Hollywood's blackest blacklist. It is inscribed instead on the list of guests to be invited to a party at the producer's house. And that is how Peter Sellers happens to show up in brownface with a mild Oriental smile and a wild Oriental eye to turn a black-tie dinner into...
...send the government a list of their members each year, as the McCarran Act did, the amendments empower the SACB to keep its own list, which will be open to the public. The petition says that the SCAB is no longer gathering information--it is now keeping a "blacklist...