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Outside of the classroom, Sagan says Bellah was "very much involved with politics" as an avowed Communist and a member of the Harvard Liberal Union...
...Sagan recalls how when HLU introduced a resolution stating that the organization should exclude Communists, Bellah was the only student willing to speak out and identify himself as a member of the Party despite fierce anti-communist sentiment...
...There were people at Harvard who were Communists, but they were all secret," Sagan recalls. "No one was in the open...
...what I don't think one person in a thousand would do," Sagan says...
Although Swidler says Bellah "had opportunities to go back even when they wanted him," Sagan suggests that Bellah's decision was based mostly on the desirability of the Berkeley post...