Word: matthiessen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...column goes on the cite Matthiessen's participation in the 1948 Progressive Party convention, and then devotes four paragraphs to listing his "Communist-front, or otherwise subversive" organizations...
...article launched into an attack on Matthiessen's political affiliations and the manner of his death. "To me," Cunningham continued, "he represented the worst kind of college professor, the kind who can command attention through his degrees and the faculty standing he holds in some great university, but who prostitutes both--and himself--in unholy causes...
...Moral sensitiveness is not an easy matter. The very qualities which lead to insight, devotion, and generosity, all of which Professor Matthiessen had as a teacher, are subject to doubt and strain. They do not grow from contentment and security, but from search and perhaps from insecurity...
...Americans, we believe in a man's right, within the law, to state his views. We do so because we believe him a free man morally responsible to the complexity of life, not merely a creature of the social order. We must therefore reject a view of Professor Matthiessen...
...should not be necessary to labor the fact that, with the suicide of Professor Matthiessen, Harvard has lost a great scholar, a devoted teacher, and a fine and sensitive...