Word: un-american
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...father of the high-school girl friend, for example, had been a prominent scriptwriter before he was blacklisted for "subversive" activities and forced to find work parking cars. The chess teacher was J. Edward Bromberg, an actor who died shortly after he was compelled to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in ill-health and against doctor's orders. The law school friend's mother had gone to jail for refusing to divulge the membership lists of either the Civil Rights Congress or the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, and her son kept it a secret from...
...August day in 1955 Pete Seeger was brought before a House Un-American Activities subcommittee. He was asked, according to the custom of the day, to recite the names of every Communist he knew. The folk singer politely declined, but with a fine sense of the symbolic, offered to stage a little recital for the committee chairman, Francis E. Walter of Pennsylvania: "I know many beautiful songs from your home county...
...strike together. After pictures and newspaper accounts of the violence and the victory, the scene shifts to Angelo Rocco, an old man now. Standing on the banks of the Merrimack, he points across to the brick mills, now abandoned, and says in a heavy accent, "They called us un-American, but I really disagree with that. We were born in a foreign country, sure, but we love America much more than the owners of the mills...
...un-American to buy a foreign-made car, and it certainly is not anti-American, but if it seriously hurts the American economy, can it be right? Thinking Americans can change their habits-if they want...
CONSERVATION MAY make sense, but many people still consider it un-American--including the Republican Party. Americans are used to spending and consuming, not tightening their belts, and Congress has balked at any attempts to place a tax on gasoline in order to reduce consumption. Last spring Yergin proposed a gasoline tax that, no matter how politically impractical, is simpler and more effective than John Anderson's. Yergin proposed a tax that would reach $1 a gallon in five years, with direct rebates to purchasers. According to Yergin's statistics, that would reduce national gasoline consumption by 25 per cent...