Word: ysa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last summer three student members of the Young Socialist Alliance at Indiana University were indicted for subversion under a 1951 State Anti-Communist Act. The indictment was based on two YSA meetings. One was a public gathering at which a Negro spoke on the "Black Revolt in America," urging Negroes to seek political power and to meet violence with violence. The other was a private meeting at which the defendants and friends gathered to plan a defense against a previous indictment...
Responsibility for the indictment belongs chiefly to the local district attorney, Thomas A. Hoadley, a recent graduate of Indiana Law School. When he decided that the University withdraw its recognition of YSA, instead of talking to the IU administration, Hoadley issued a statement to the press. University officials first learned of his campaign in the next day's newspapers. Later, Hoadley violated the secrecy of grand jury testimony by announcing that the dean of students, one of the witnesses, had recommended that the three students be indicted. The dean denies making such a recommendation...
Hoadley also raided a coed's apartment with a search warrant later discovered to be invalid. The prosecution told the press that he had been watching the coed for a long time because of her connection with YSA. She and the YSA both denied her affiliation with the socialist organization, and she threatened a libel suit...
...prosecutor originally announced that he intended to force the University to withdraw recognition from YSA. Aside from the fact that interference in University affairs is beyond the sphere of a public official, it has become increasingly obvious that Hoadley is using the case to advance his own political ambitions. Conducting what the Indiana student newspaper termed "trial by newspaper," the district attorney has consistently chosen the paths to justice most likely to make headlines...
...example. Born in Kreminiecz, Russia, but taken to San Francisco by his parents before he was a year old, he studied with the San Francisco Symphony's Russian-born and trained Naum Blinder, later listened to recordings of the Austrian Fritz Kreisler and the Belgian Eugène Ysaÿe. What emerged from this combination of influences was a manner of playing that is best described as modified romantic-Slavic ardor and butter-smooth tone, under the taut discipline of a scholarly musical mind...