Word: huac
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...student regards himself as a political "out," and is thus forced to couch his comment in a radical, demonstrative yet non-political way. Presumptuously though, Mills assumes that the liberal segments of society will probably be responsive when the students (through a freedom ride, a peace march, an anti-HUAC demonstration) make their grievances clear...
...defended the N.S.A.'s stand on Cuba, academic freedom, HUAC, and other political issues as "proper," as they dealt with subjects related to education. In his opinion (and the N.S.A.'s) students have a "special responsibility" to speak out on such topics...
...conservative position on the pro- HUAC resolution had been heavily compromised in an effort to gain votes, and on other issues the Phillips contingent did not fare so well. Their most resounding setback was in the NSA executive committee's unanimous refusal to censure Vice President Timothy Jenkins for saying, "I think we now have unmasked in the final reality what exactly exists behind the facade of the conservative image, because we now see the base and debased colonial, repressive, slave- owning kind of mentality that can exist in a hard, fascist- type regime...
Another near-explosive issue was President Pusey's refusal of permission for Pete Seeger, Kennedy's classmate, to present his folk songs at Harvard after his indictment for contempt of Congress (before the HUAC). Faculty reaction was generally unfavorable. Pusey relented, explained that he had expected a political rally, and ruled that Seeger could visit the University if he agreed to sing only. The University does not want to get involved in cases still pending in court, said the President...
Seeger is even more concerned about the attempted censorship of his music. "I'll stand or fall by these songs," he said before he played the three songs excoriated by the HUAC. "And I've got a right to sing them for every kind of group." The three songs--Midnight Special, Hammer Song, and Wasn't That a Time--were about as American as the HUAC could ask for: a prison song collected by Leadbelly, a song about "the hammer of justice, bell of freedom, a song about love...," and a song about patriotism in times when America was threatened...