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Next March, moreover, Basic Books will bring out The Venona Secrets by Herbert Romerstein, former minority chief investigator of the House Internal Security Committee (which used to be HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Committee), and the late Eric Breindel. The book will make sensational charges, among them Romerstein's claim that the radical journalist I.F. Stone was a paid Soviet agent...
...father, filmmaker Leo Hurwitz, before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Those who were named before the committee as having been communists had their careers ruined. Was Kazan a great director? Without a doubt. But should he be awarded a special Oscar? Although my father was not called before HUAC, the mention of his name by Kazan and others was enough to end his career in television and studio films for more than 10 years. Thousands of others were victimized by those with whom Kazan actively sided. What might their achievements have been had they not been named? TOM HURWITZ...
...such in America that actually changed the way people perceive movies--is irrelevant. To them, Kazan, 89, is a traitor who, almost a half-century ago, when anticommunist blacklisting plagued American life in general and show business in particular, "named names" before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and, worse, has ever since refused to register shame or apology for so doing. To them, precisely because he was the most powerful individual to choose this course, he remains the central symbolic figure in the cautionary political fable they concocted around those long-ago events. Because it reads so simply...
...friendship, and the protection of the authority figures in my life." He admits that it was this adaptability that led him to join a Communist cell, which contained some of the theater's more influential members, and it may not be unfair to speculate that his behavior before HUAC derived from the same source...
...course, is a quality too often underestimated by intellectuals. Combined with his survivor's shrewdness in observing the behavior that betrays motives, it is what gave his productions both realism and driving power. Above all, it is what enabled him to survive the contempt heaped on him after his HUAC testimony. This is how he remembers his interior monologue at the time, addressed to his critics: "You can't hurt me; you haven't penetrated my guard; I can beat you at any game you choose to play, because I may not be smarter than you or more talented...