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...cuts deeply into the psyches of graduates whose collegiate experiences were formed during the dark days of the 1950s.The fifties were a risky period for Harvard, its undergraduates, and its recent graduates. Powerful political forces were attacking the University, contending that it was not sufficiently “anti-communist?? in its orientation; indeed, there were many influential officials who suggested that Harvard was a haven for communist influences that intended the destruction of American values. The fervor became so prevalent that the post office promptly delivered to the office of then-University President Nathan M. Pusey...
...Harvard, but that since his committee franchise included oversight of defense plants and Harvard accepted research grants from the Department of Defense, Harvard was in effect a defense plant—and I was an employee of Harvard,” wrote Kamin.‘RABID ANTI-ANTI-COMMUNIST??“What brought it into more intense focus than it might have ever had was the involvement of Nathan Pusey as president,” says Jacob ‘Jack’ Rosenthal ’56, a former associate managing editor of The Crimson...
After Harvard announced its new president, McCarthy declared that his state would be glad to get rid of a “rabid anti anti-Communist?? such as Pusey...
...first months as president of Harvard, Pusey acted as the stubborn “anti anti-Communist?? that McCarthy had labeled...
...Politically it was communism that made me conservative,” he says. “Liberals were not sufficiently anti-communist??they were soft on communism. They had a spot in their hearts for anything on the left...
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