Word: kubek
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tony Kubek: Thanks, Bill. I see this week as a letdown period, since Harvard is coming off its key victory over Dartmouth last weekend. I talked to some of the players before writing this column, and here's what they had to say about this week's upcoming game against Princeton at 1:30, Saturday...Right...Uh Huh...Well, good luck Saturday. And now, over to my colleague, Joe Garagiola, who will give you a rundown on the rest of the action taking place at Princeton...
...went. Through the fifth inning, past an aborted Sox rally in the sixth, by the seventh inning stretch, and before Tony Kubek could say "the Red Sox are down to their final three outs," the bottom of the ninth had arrived...
Belfrage, like Kubek and McCarthy, views a world of villains and heroes. Until recently, and certainly during the fifties, it was easier to sympathize with the Belfrages. There was a civil war going on then, and for some men, including Belfrage, it took courage to speak out. It was easy to agree, during the fifties, that while the "heretics" might not be blameless, their punishments far outweighed their crimes. Certainly, their inquisitors represented a reactionary force, while the "heretics," for the most part, advocated social reform and perhaps social revolution. What's more, innocent bystanders suffered--because McCarthy, McCarran...
...died down now. We have the right to demand more than pamphlets bound between hard covers. Belfrage's book resembles Kubek's not only in its vituperative writing style, but more importantly, in the questions it chooses to ask and the way it chooses to remain within the intellectual context of the fifties. Was Owen Lattimore the number-one Soviet espionage agent in America? Did Hiss maneuver the Yalta sell-out? Did the denial of a passport to W.E.B. DuBois uphold the principles or security of this nation? No. Granted. But...so what...
...recreate a drama and "to appreciate the impact it produced on that [original] audience," perhaps he was correct to restrict his reading. But an "objective reappraisal," by this definition, is only a watered down, flattened out version of the original story. No depth is added, no illumination attempted. Kubek and Belfrage asked the wrong questions; Thomas asks no questions...