Word: huac
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Defending the resolution "Resolved: That the House Un-American Activities Committee should be abolished," the affirmative team appealed to the emotions and sense of humor of the audience. It quoted Harry Truman's assertion that the HUAC is "the most un-American thing in the United States today," and described a new parior game, "HUAC," in which the side with the most accusations wins...
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...audience as well. The American people and their government must mature into the realization that the performing artist, along with the writer and painter, is effective and entertaining only so long as he speaks with the empassioned truth of his convictions--regardless of their complexion. Not even the HUAC would ask Pablo Picasso to explain his red period and name those artists with a propensity for a similar pigment...
...second problem in Seeger's struggle with the Congress was unwittingly outlined by Prosecutor Younger in his criticism of the defense attorney's "Alice-in-Wonderland logic." This same term may paradoxically be employed to describe the HUAC's Alice-like wonder at the folk singer's material. How could the same Peter Seeger who recognized the evils of war in popularizing "Down By the Riverside" recognize a similar evil in the men starving during the depression of the 30's while "The banks are made of marble?" For a convincing performer there is no such entity as a polite...
...bulk of Ross's argument, however, was directed along other points: a technical one that the HUAC had never explicitly made known to the folk singer why the questions asked him were germane to its investigation and, secondly, a moral one that Seeger's stand was a courageous adherence to principle...