Word: blacklisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...