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Speaking at a teaching on political activism, Michael D. Tanzer '57, an avowed leftist, yesterday told about 40 people that involvement in political causes has always been "an ongoing Harvard tradition." He noted that while he was a student, the "concerns were McCarthysim, civil rights legislation, a hands-off Cuba movement and even antinuclear sentiment...
...modest land reform that expropriated only unused fields, including much of United Fruits holdings--were hardly those of a Marxist revolutionary Nor did they pose a lethal threat to United Fruit's interests, its fruit-producing lands remained untouched But America, caught up in the hysteria of McCarthysim and the Cold War, flinched. The reflex to react immediately and decisively against any perceived danger to the capitalist status quo, in the United States or abroad, became highly developed Arbenz, a flawed politician in Schlesinger and Kinzer's eyes was nonetheless a true pluralist and certainly not a Marxist...
...frankly bothered by the emergence of left wing McCarthysim (Joe), which like the earlier version tries to counter ideas that one happens to disagree with by ad hominem attacks on alleged relevant affiliations. The answers which liberals made to Joe McCarthy are equally applicable to his left-wing disciples...
Belatedly I have received a copy of your CRIMSON article of March 15. 1967. and I hope that it is not typical of a type of reverse McCarthysim induced in the United States by the Ramparts article on the NSA. For your information I am not now and never have been the least interested in securing the names of "Americans who expressed sympathy with Communist speakers" and I hope that you will inform the unnamed "acquaintance" of the unnamed "Lowell House tutor" who is the source of your story about a supposed approach made nine years ago that this...
...late Forties and early Fifties had stopped, and that now all the important intellectual plays are British. Tennessee Williams, William Inge, and Truman Capote, the inheritors of the tradition of Arthur Miller and Clifford Odets, "deal with unnatural subjects--maybe the only safe ones to write about." McCarthysim had a damaging effect on social drama. Miss Winters said...