Word: crypto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interest in girls, but he did get so chummy with the son of the farmer with whom he boarded that he was chided for it. This was the first of many close male friendships that have led later critics of Whitman to regard him as at least a crypto-homosexual...
...able to believe in the guilt of two such trusted employees, was brought to the ministry to hear their confessions. "Forgive me!" cried fat, thin-mouthed René Turpin, who had made a career by attaching himself to Mons and traveling upward with him. "This is an affair of crypto- Communism," said the police. "They knew perfectly well where their information was going. They wanted to give the opposition information for their campaign to stop the war in Indo-China and ban the atom bomb...
...nerves develops, Charles is revealed as a crypto-Communist and Eva as a Soviet spy. Edna finds that she still loves Charles too much to give his scheme away. But matters are not really in her hands, for in the background lurk two rival espionage teams, led by a vulpine Commie and a cagey British agent. Between them, they pull the plot strings of Ambush into a tight, ironic noose...
...This appears to be the happy development of events in Britain, but is far from true, alas, in the U.S. or the British Commonwealth countries, where academic Marxism-or crypto-Marxism-is stronger than ever. The almost unbearable tension in American academic and civil-service life at the present time springs from the intransigence of Senator McCarthy on the one hand, but on the other hand from the widespread adherence, amongst the younger university men in America, to the monstrous falsehood (and to the belief in a totalitarian state, which it implies) that all human actions, political, cultural or religious...
Flynn: "Well Senator, may I reply to, that? To point I am making here is that we certainly do not want to send to Germany confronting that Communist crowd over there with hidden and crypto-Communists all over the place, a man who cannot recognize a Communist on his own campus, who is a member of 20 different Communist organizations. I think you cannot have a man over there who is going to be deluded and deceived . . . it is all right to be tolerant if you are the president of Harvard University and your institution stands for that...