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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS RESPECT for history is perhaps at the root of her highly celebrated feud with Lillian Hellman, the playwright and author. "The fact is that I think people have become increasingly concerned with the factual basis of Miss Hellman's recreation of history," she says. The dispute is a long-standing one, dating back to the publication of Miss Hellman's Scoundrel Time, which singles out Lionel and Diana Trilling as too sympathetic with the "scoundrels" of the McCarthy era. The Trillings, however, maintained that it was possible to oppose the red baiting tactics of the '50s without explicitly endorsing...
...says initially there is "no point" in talking about Miss Hellman, but nevertheless commences a stream of pointed criticisms. "Scoundrel Time? Listen to the title of the book. My book is called Mrs. Harris. Her book is called Scoundrel Time. I'm called judgmental," she says, laughing. "The whole book is an indictment.... Why doesn't somebody say, `You can't go around calling people scoundrels; that is not the way you deal with history.' And writing a whole book in order to prove that you are the most virtuous person...
...greatest concern in the disagreement with Miss Hellman, Mrs. Trilling maintains, is historical accuracy in our knowledge of the McCarthy period. "I don't think that in Miss Hellman's lifetime most people are going to be able to deal with it. Perhaps we'll just have to wait. And then people will go to the records and they'll see what's true and what isn't true...
...takes exception to the Hellman memoir. "A very great accomplishment of fictionalization," she calls it. In particular, she points to Miss Hellman's great distinction between taking the First and Fifth Amendments before the House Un-American Activities Committee, finding the First preferable because it rejects the very right of the committee to ask its questions. Mrs. Trilling says that from reading Miss Hellman's book, it sounds as if she actually pled the First Amendment. In fact, what she did was offer to plead the First, Trilling says, and when the committee refused to accept it, pled the Fifth...