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...told the story of frustrated Phil Blake, impatient idealist, and his conversion to active membership in the Communist Party. ("He found answers there . . . some sense of security, of common purpose.") It told of Phil's new creed ("We do not question . . .") and of his development into a perfectionist for the U.S. and an apologist for the Sovíet Union. It showed Phil at work in labor unions ("Come early and vote late") and in front organizations that turned and twisted (and took new names) with the whip-cracks of the party line...
...Idealist, Not Revolutionary...
Despite the idealist label attached to this program, none of the elements in it is revolutionary or unknown at Harvard. General Education courses have shown the way toward substitution of papers for examinations. Conference groups are in use here and in large numbers of other United States colleges. Group tutorial has been tried successfully in the Social Relations Department and others...
Those twenty-four hours are only the jumping off place for a flood of reminiscence that yields fifty-two flashbacks and several of the main lines of story. John Wickliff Shawnessy, a mid-century, mid-continent teacher-idealist-poet is the protagonist, and his life seems to represent the shadowy outlines of a larger history...
...over the world, millions of people (including some who were rather disappointed in his successor Stalin) came to revere Lenin as an idealist who believed in freedom and justice for the common man. Perhaps he did. He also believed in black neckties with little white flowers, and almost always wore them. Both these beliefs were irrelevant to what Lenin really stood for. He stood for the use, by any means, of power over people...