Word: communist
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Arthur Miller, the world-renowned playwright widely regarded as a pioneer of American drama, recounted his experiences with the anti-Communist hysteria of the 1940s and 1950s and the creation of "The Crucible" in a lecture Monday afternoon...
Miller, who also wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Death of a Salesman," called McCarthy and the anti-communist forces "silly...
...experience with the so-called McCarthy era began, Miller said, when Columbia Pictures was preparing to release the film version of "Death of a Salesman." Because many executives considered the play anti-capitalist, Columbia asked Miller to sign an anti-communist declaration. He refused...
...human being from earth, Li replied, "I don't wish to talk about myself at a higher level. People wouldn't understand it.") His regimen, promoted through books, tapes and videos, was wildly popular, eventually attracting a reported 60 million adherents--4 million more than the Communist Party...
...John Paul II is going the extra mile for reconciliation in Rumania, abandoning Vatican claims on Catholic property confiscated by Rumania's former communist regime and transferred to Orthodox parishes, and also refraining from visiting Transylvania, where the bulk of the country's Catholic minority reside. But the extent of tension between the Rumania's Orthodox Church and its Catholic minority is underscored by a recent agreement that clergy from the two churches would refrain from trading insults and punches. With much of the Orthodox world perceiving itself as under attack in Yugoslavia, the best the pontiff may be able...