Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other incidents have intensified this popular conception of the University. I Led Three Lives, for instance, Herbert Philbrick's expose of party activities in the Cambridge Youth Council and at Harvard--perhaps one of the most publicized volumes of the decade, sold millions of copies and ran in newspaper installments in practically every large city...
...with the University, and quite unrelated to it. For a few, Communism formed the central point of their lives, often changing them, always narrowing their future paths. An examination of the careers followed by several of these men demonstrates just how little validity there is in much of the popular impression of Harvard...
...popular song of the 1920's had been "My God, How the Money Rolls In." After 1929, "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?" and "Sing Me a Song of Social Significance" took its place. When the economic system collapsed before those who had criticized it during the 1920's, they needed only a reasonable alternative to alienate themselves from it. They were convinced that something must be done. Seven million college-age young people were unemployed. Teachers were being fired; low salaries were being cut still further. Capitalism seemed on the rocks. And it appeared that only the Communist party...
...long time after 1929, the association of Hicks and many others with the Communist movement was merely that of "traveling." Before 1935, the party made no real effort to recruit the intellectuals. In that year, however, the Popular Front was formed. Party discipline was temporarily relaxed and three programs which appealed to the liberals of the time were emphasized; opposition to fascism, organization of labor unions, and support of the New Deal. The slogan was "Communism is 20th Century Americanism...
...ever before or after, faculty members did no recruiting among members of the student body. Students generally were responding to the same influences as their teachers, and were turning to communism neither because of their teachers nor their courses. Rather, the environment, assisted by the Communist Party's own, Popular Front--now aimed specifically at liberal intellectuals caused their temporary allegiance to the party. Granville Hicks writes. "The party used the intellectuals for all they were worth, but its leaders were aware, as most people today are not, that there were limits--beyond which most of them could...