Search Details

Word: blacklisted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Farce is tragedy out for a good time." So begins Stefan Kanfer's chronicle of one of the saddest, stupidest chapters of American political history -a time when the political blacklist was used in show biz in the 1940s and '50s and how that came about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragedy and Farce | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

Among these policies are the harsh disciplinary measures that agents consider unjust; the persistence of power cliques that virtually run the bureau; the perpetuation of Hoover's notorious "blacklist" of people to be shunned, socially and otherwise, by FBI agents; the maintenance of so-called penal colonies, field offices to which agents in disfavor are banished; and leaking FBI in formation to embarrass officials Gray considers to be his enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Tattletale Gray | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

...history he embodied was a thoroughly disreputable part of the American past. It is the history of the "Red Raids," of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, of the internment of thousands of Japanese-Americans, of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, of the Hollywood Ten, of the blacklist, of "twenty years of treason...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John Edgar Hoover | 5/4/1972 | See Source »

...Unless he belongs to a strong union," says Feinberg, "a dissident employee is highly vulnerable to decapitation." Worse, a fired whistle blower often winds up on an industry blacklist, making it difficult for him to find another job. Says J. Irwin Miller, chairman of the Cummins Engine Co.: "There are prices to pay for conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHICS: The Whistle Blowers | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

...have not been good times for Elia Kazan. He has not had a critical or popular success in films or the theater for years. His second novel, The Arrangement, was a huge bestseller, but the movie he made of it was a costly debacle. More recently, books about the blacklist, like Eric Bentley's Thirty Years of Treason, have revived the memory of Kazan's cooperation with congressional Communist-hunters in the early '50s. One looks to his work for reflections of these crises but finds only camouflage and confusion. The Arrangement, apparently intended as a kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Diversionary Tactic | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Next