Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge, Mass., April 10--(Speaking of the John Reed Club having reportedly gone underground).... William Murray Simmons...President of the CRIMSON, preferred not to be quoted on the situation. Young Simmons, well-liked and hardworking, is no Communist. The tendency of Simmons and other students contacted by this writer, however, was to maintain the strength and danger of the Communist movement at Harvard. In doing so they used the very same phrases of "academic freedom," "liberalism," "civil liberties," and the like that some of their professors have used in defending their affiliations with communist front organizations...
...acute eyes & ears, e.g., his description of antiaircraft fire as "like immense sheets of lead falling slowly through the sky, rattling and uncreasing as they fell." Then the pea-soup fog of shame descends again, and Poet Spender plods sadly on, carrying his backbone like a broken reed...
...rundown on the University's political groups, Tribune columnist William Fulton quoted students as saying the John Reed Society had gone underground. The society ceased operations this year...
...John Reed Club "Underground...
...expose" mentions alleged leftist organizations to which Schirman belonged. All are now non-existant. Fulton said students here informed him that the John Reed Club, which was disbanded this year, "has gone underground...