Word: mccarthyã
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When the members of the Class of 1955 received their diplomas, Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy??s public accusations of communist infiltration at Harvard had faded, but questions of academic freedom still cast their shadows over Harvard Yard...
...While McCarthy??s accusations may have sparked students to think twice about their political affiliations, his claims weighed more heavily on members of the faculty, some of whom were brought before congressional committees to respond to allegations of communist ties...
...apparent nobody” had become somebody, taking on significant roles within the University—as an advocate for the Divinity School—and in a wider realm, becoming what Time magazine called “senior defense counsel to the academic world” against McCarthy??s prosecution of suspected communists...
...McCarthy??s play was suitably inscrutable fare for the setting. I’m not sure that I really understand its plot, or that I’m really supposed to (the same goes for the play’s name). From what I can gather, the story revolves around the mythical Atalanta, the fittest of the Greek heroines, who challenges suitors to race her if they wish for her hand. The one man who is able to win her over throws golden apples in her path, which, in McCarthy??s version at least, Atalanta stops...
...interpretation of McCarthy??s take on this myth might be reading too much into it, but I figure that if this piece is ever anthologized as one of McCarthy??s “flawed, but promising” early works, some graduate student will come up with an equally overblown explanation—so I might as well make the first attempt...