Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Raven, Jenny Lamour) introduces a picture that is surely one of the most evil ever made, and yet, curiously, one that uses the approaches of religion. The Wages of Fear seeks out its epiphanies at the cold-blood level of the swamp, where the winding python rears to hiss at the sun, and sinks back blinded but indifferent into slime, where deity is first experienced-as despair...
...report charges, without citing any current evidence, that the foundations feed "subversive purposes." But, with the rare and thoroughly aired exceptions of the Institute of Pacific Relations and the 1947 appointment of Alger Hiss as president of the Carnegie Endowment, Reece's labors uncovered no Communist infiltration. "We do not know that any large sums of foundation money have gone directly into Communist channels," says the report. Accordingly, the "diabolical conspiracy" cited in Reece's prelude boils down to a tirade against interlocking foundation directorships and coordinated planning of research...
From Peter Murphy, Buffalo: "A fine dirty red rat are you . . . Who were the birds that voted not to allow Senator McCarthy time off to recover from his illness? I'll tell you: it was Red loving Fulbright and the rotten Jew, Herbert Lehman, the pal of Hiss...
...ALGER HISS has paid his penalty under the law. Anybody else in the same circumstances is entitled to be accorded by his fellow men a chance to rehabilitate himself. But what will the public think about him? He never has publicly conceded that the jury was right in convicting him of perjury. In the eyes of many people therefore, he has not atoned for his sin. The jury's judgment was based to no small extent on the flat statement by Hiss that he never was a Communist. Since his trial, another witness-Nathaniel Weyl -who broke with...
There have been many ex-Communists who have been received into re spected circles of American life but primarily because they "turned state's evidence," so to speak, and aided their own government by furnishing all the information they had about the Communist infiltration movement. Alger Hiss should be left to make his volun tary atonement for his crime, but, if he chooses to remain silent altogether, he will not soon regain, even among his friends, some of the esteem he once...