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...SCOUNDREL TIME by Lillian Hellman. After years of silence, the formidable author vents her fury about her costly encounters with the Mc-Carthyism of the early...
...almost as much ink has been spilled over Joe McCarthy and the witch-hunts of the 1950s as on the virtues of George Washington. Woody Allen stands up against the blacklist and prying Congressional Committees in The Front; Lillian Hellman provides her view of the period, often scathing, in Scoundrel Time; and a spate of books, articles and film has appeared dealing with the Hollywood Ten trial, the Hiss and Rosenberg cases. Professional historians are also now taking a closer look at McCarthyism and America's entry into the Cold...
...respects the claim of one Business School spokesman who, in explaining why there are no ethics courses in that school, said: "On the subject of ethics, we feel that either you have them or you don't." He notes that "formal education will rarely improve the character of a scoundrel...
...Scoundrel Time, Hellman...
...clawing began when Essayist Trilling, 71, widow of Critic Lionel Trilling, disclosed that Little, Brown & Co. had canceled her book contract. The reason, said a representative of the publisher, was "unpleasantly personal attacks" on Playwright Hellman, 69, a longtime Little, Brown writer and author of the current bestseller Scoundrel Time. Hellman had stood firm in the face of a congressional inquisition during the Joseph McCarthy era, and in her book she wondered "how Diana and Lionel Trilling, old, respected friends, could have come out of the same age and time with such different political and social views from...