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Comparing the influence of the long-playing record to Gutenberg is not as far fetched as it sounds. When they were first put out in 1948, LP records seemed to offer only an assortment of mechanical advantages: economy, convenience, less surface hiss. Like the 78 r.p.m., though, the LP at first was still just that - a record, a means of preserving for posterity some of the leading concert-hall interpretations of the day. Twenty-one years later, all that has changed. In a McLuhanesque transformation of musical culture, the LP is no longer a mere documentary device. For composers, listeners...
Nixon, a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, became known primarily because of the Alger Hiss case, while Rogers pursued the five-percenters and saw some of them sentenced to jail. Rogers had earned so good a reputation for the way he conducted investigations that when the Democrats took control of his reconstituted committee after 1948, he was kept on as chief counsel of an investigating subcommittee. At the 1952 convention, both men worked for Eisenhower's nomination. The Vice Presidentelect recommended his friend for the No. 2 spot in the Justice Department, and when Attorney General...
...liberals are scant of new ideas. "You'd think Harvard and MIT between them could produce some real fiery stuff about what the military is doing to foreign policy. You get more from a state university." The Harvard audience hissed, so with a smile Goodwin added, "We did produce Alger Hiss and Dean Acheson...
...might of the Federal Government unless welfare officials stopped discriminating against Negroes. Selma, of course, had responded, doing everything it could to make the White Niggers--and the black ones too--uncomfortable when they came to town. "Your parents and your grandparents are gonna be so ashamed," they would hiss at the workers. "Someday they's gonna find out you been livin' with niggers and making' trouble." Others were more direct. "You goddam white niggers," they would say. "Why dontcha just get out of here and leave decent folk alone...
...have then acted, by doing such things as draft counseling or resistance, developing new courses or seminars, or in some cases by actively working for McCarthy. But it is true of a good many others who see it as fashionable to be "radical," to criticize, to yell, to hiss, without thinking about what they are doing. Perhaps these are the people who are unwilling to make the complete break, and who will, for the most part, eventually "sell out" and find ways to spend their lives perpetuating the establishment and the materialistic good life that they now criticize because...