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What is most unusual about the booklet is that it surprised anyone at all. Even Walter Mondale missed the point when he called for CIA director William Casey's resignation for advocating un-American mischief. The activities of the CIA in the not so-secret Nicaraguan war have been public knowledge for months...
...know you share. In addition, he has, on several occasions, articulated his own spiritual convictions. As leaders under God's authority, we cannot afford to resign ourselves to idle [political] neutrality . . ." The letter enraged conservative Columnist William Safire. "That political proselytizing is surely so unethical as to be un-American," he wrote last week. Safire also fumed about the "Fundamentalist intolerance" he found at the Dallas convention, and declared that "no President . . .has done more to marshal the political clout of these evangelicals than Ronald Reagan-to his historic discredit." William F. Buckley Jr., however, in a column last...
...when Pusey became president in June of 1953, he inherited the cases of Wendell H. Furry, Leon J. Kamin and Helen Deane Markham. In February Furry, then an associate professor of Physics, had been called before Congressman Harold H. Velde's House Un-American Affairs Committee and had refused to answer any questions. Kamin, a teaching fellow in Social Relations and Markham, assistant professor of Anatomy, had also invoked the Fifth Amendment in March before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee. The Harvard Corporation was faced with a dilemma: what should be done with these professors...
...chill December night in 1948, Whittaker Chambers led two investigators from the House Committee on Un-American Activities into a pumpkin patch on his Maryland farm. From inside a hollowed-out pumpkin he produced several rolls of microfilm: copies of secret Government documents that, he claimed, had been passed to him in the 1930s by a State Department official named Alger Hiss, when both men were members of a Soviet espionage ring...
Awake and Sing! is essentially a story of failed promise. But none was so glaring as the playwright's. Clifford Odets was one of the most applauded writers of his generation; he ended in Hollywood writing unproduced scripts, repudiating his old colleagues and furnishing names to the House Un-American Activities Committee when it came to investigate the film industry. As evidence of his political rightness, Odets showed the Congressmen a pan of Awake and Sing! in the New Masses: "A situation is created out of nothing just to get across a wisecrack." That is not an entirely unfair...