Wed., September 3 - INTRODUCTIONS

Tue., September 9--Wed., September 10 (optional): Forbidden Planet (1956), showing on the Resnet Movie Channel: 9/9 at 10 AM; 9/10, 2:25 PM; 9/11, 8:20 PM; 9/13, 2:40 AM.

Wed., September 10 - MAY I HAVE YOUR PERMISSION TO WEEP?

• Historical overviews from Ellen Schrecker's The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents (1994) (W)
  • "Communism and National Security: The Menace Emerges"
  • "The Growth of the Anti-Communist Network"
  • "The State Steps In: Setting the Anti-Communist Agenda"
  • "Congressional Committees and Unfriendly Witnesses"
  • "Blacklists and Other Economic Sanctions"
• Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States - Chapter 16, "A People's War?" (W)
• The Hollywood blacklist 50 years later
• Richard H. Rovere, Senator Joe McCarthy (W)
• David Caute, "Guilt by Association & Thought Control" (B)
• Mark Goodson, "If I'd Stood Up Earlier..." (B)
• Cedric Belfrage's "Fever Charts, 1948-1957" (W and B)
• Truman, Harry - excerpt from speech dated July 29, 1951 (W)
• "Is This Tomorrow?" and other communist takeover dramatizations (W)
• Cedric Belfrage, I Appreciate Your Permission to Weep" (W and B)
• Arthur Miller's testimony before HUAC (B)
• McCarran Act, or Internal Security Act (1950) and its special way of outing those named in anticommunist testimony (W)
• Communist Control Act, 1954 - excerpts from the legislation (W)
• Introduction to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) (W)
• Why Lillian Hellman remains fascinating today (W)
• Lillian Hellman's FBI file (W)
• The Hollywood Blacklist, by Dan Georgakas (W)
• How to Learn From the Blacklist, by Walter Goodman (Feb. 1996) (W)
• Douglas, William O., "Judicial Treatment of Nonconformists" - from The Court Years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas (W)
• Hugo Black's dissenting opinion in Dennis v. U.S. (W)
• Irwin Kahn, "War of Words" (Daily Pennsylvanian editorial, 1952) (W)
• Excerpts from trial transcript, including Eugene Dennis's opening statement and Louis Budenz' testimony about the "Aesopian Language Thesis" (W)
• Dalton Trumbo's essay on the Smith Act trials, "The Devil in the Book" (W - password protected)
• Dr. Fred Schwarz, You Can Trust the Communists (to be Communists) (1960) (W)
• Overstreet, Harry and Bonaro. The Strange Tactics of Extremism. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1964. (Chapter 3, pp. 54-65) - A READING LESSON (W)
• Al Filreis's essay about anticommunist language theory implied by the government's case in prosecuting Dennis (W)
• Overstreet, Harry and Bonaro, "Tactics and Stratagems: The United Front" - from the book What We Must Know about Communism (1958) (W)
• Carl Bernstein, "The Case of Emily Geller" (W)
• Harvey Matusow - professional excommunist anticommunist witness (W)
• "Cohn and Schine in the Libraries" - an excerpt from Richard Rovere's book on Joseph McCarthy (W)
• The story of Mason Goode by Vivian Gornick (from The Romance of American Communism (W)
• Matthew Cvetic and I Was a Communist for the FBI (W)
• Angela Calomiris, from Red Masquerade (W)

• Arthur Miller, THE CRUCIBLE (H)
• On the Waterfront (V)
  (On the Waterfront can be viewed on the Resnet Movie Channel on Sunday, Sept. 14, 10 PM; and Tuesday, September 16, at 8 PM. For more information, click here.)
  
• Victor Navasky, Naming Names (W)
• Victor Navasky's "Elia Kazan and The Case for Silence" (W)
• "Long, Bitter Debate From the '50's: Views of Kazan and His Critics", by Richard Bernstein (W)

• Howard Fast, "The Martian Shop" (B & W)
• Fast, Howard - biographical profile by Alan Wald (W)
• Jack Finney, sci fi writer (W)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (V)
  (Invasion of the Body Snatchers can be viewed on the Resnet Movie Channel on Sunday, Sept. 21, 10 PM; and Tuesday, September 23, at 8 PM. For more information, click here.)
  
• Philip Morrison, a Cornell Professor of Physics, expresses doubts about atomic warfare and then faces a Congressional anticommunist investigating committee (SISS) in 1952 (W)
• Forbidden Planet (1956) (W)

• Daniel Bell, excerpt from The End of Ideology, chapter 13 (B & W) (The conclusion is also available on the web.)
• Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Vital Center (1949) - brief excerpts (W)
• Overstreet, Harry and Bonaro, The Strange Tactics of Extremism (W)
• Kristol, Irving, "Keep up with Ourselves" (W)
• Hodges, Donald Clark, "The End of 'The End of Ideology'" (W)
• Rousseas and Farganis, "American Politics and the End of Ideology" (W)
• Wrong, Dennis, "Reflections on the End of Ideology" (W)
• The 1988 Presidential elections & the end of ideology (W)
• Kennedy, John F. - at the End of Ideology (W)
• Tom Hayden on the "house of theory" (from a draft version of The Port Huron Statement, 1962) (W)
• John Crowe Ransom - on the coolness of art and the danger of moral fervor (W)
• Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., "The New Mood in Politics" (1960) (W)
• Brooks and Penn Warren, excerpts from the famous New Critical textbook Understanding Poetry (revised in 1950) (W)
• Richard Ohmann's "Teaching and Studying Literature at the End of Ideology" (W)
• Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., "Liberalism in America: A Note for Europeans" (1956) (W)
• "The Politics of Scholarship: Liberals, Anti-Communism, and McCarthyism" by Athan Theoharis (W)
• James Wechsler, "The Age of Unthink" - the Center takes on the Beats; be sure to read this excerpt from Kerouac's On the Road (W)
• John Cheever, "Goodbye, My Brother" (W)

• Ellison, Invisible Man (H)
• Irving Howe, "Black Boys and Native Sons" (a 1963 essay about Wright, Baldwin, and Ellison) (W)
• Lloyd Brown's negative review of Invisible Man (W)
• Irving Howe review of Invisible Man - published in The Nation May 10, 1952 (W)
• Thomas H. Schaub's American Fiction in the Cold War on Ellison's early leftist reviews in relation to later writing (W)
• Saul Bellow's review of Invisible Man (W)
• John Corry, "Profile of an American Novelist, A White View of Ralph Ellison" - published in Black World (December 1970--a special Ralph Ellison issue) (W)
• The murder of Mack Parker as presented to the readers of the Chicago Defender on May 16, 1959 (W)

• Whyte, William, The Organization Man (W)
• "You're NOT just one of a crowd" - an advertisement of The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S. (W)
• Louis Auchincloss, "The Power of Suggestion" from the collection of stories, Powers of Attorney (B)
• Review of The Collected Stories of Louis Aucincloss (W)

NO CLASS ON OCTOBER 22

Wed., October 29 - FEMINISTS ARE COMMUNISTS

• Betty Friedan, THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE (chaps 1,2,3,5,7,10) (H)
• All About Eve (V)
• Newsweek on women, March 7, 1960 (W)
• "Books for the Family", 1946 advertisement from Harper's (W)
• "A Liberal Trade-in," ad for Ohrbach's (W)
• "The Iron Curtain Look Is Here!" (Life, 1952) (W)
• "Women--Russia's Second Class Citizens" (Look, 1954) (W)
• A Santa Fe railroad ad celebrating women in wartime railroading (W)
• Linda Allen's song, "Rosy the Riveter--Revisted" (W)
• Film: All about Eve (W)

ONE HOUR WITH JACKSON MacLOW

• Louis Cabri, "'Rebus Effort Remove Government': Jackson Mac Low, Why?/Resistance, Anarcho-Pacifism," Crayon #1 (1997) (hand-out)
• Bio-biblio intro to Mac Low
• Jackson Mac Low web site
• Jackson MacLow, poem-performance of 960 words (and letters) derived from the name of a deceased friend (August 11, 1975)
  Audio .au format | Beginning piece -- Length: 45 sec. || Size: 750K || Hear It
  Audio .au format | Another Clip -- Length: 68 sec. || Size: 1,000K || Hear It
  

• Philip Rieff, "Politics & the Individual," an excerpt from Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (W & B both)
• Sigmund Freud, "Civilization and Its Discontents", an excerpt (W)
• Allen Ginsberg and his psychiatrist (W)
• Russell Kirk on Freudianism circa 1959
• Harry A. Overstreet, "The Play of Politics on the Mind" from the book The Mature Mind (1949) (B)
• Peter Viereck, The Unadjusted Man - two chapters (W)
• Irving Howe on how Americans "personalize everything" (W)
• Freud's couch (W)
• Knight, John, The Story of My Psychoanalysis - "Talking it Out" (a chapter) (W & B both)
• example of the "triumph" from recent years: John Rocker (Braves pitcher) pathologized
• Sidney Finkelstein, "Psychoanalysis and the Arts" (published in the Communist Masses & Mainstream, August 1951) (B)
• Laswell, Harold D. - a brief bibliography (W)

• Rebel without a Cause (V)
  (Rebel without a Cause can be viewed on the Resnet Movie Channel on Sunday, Nov. 2, at 10 PM; and Tuesday, Nov. 4, at 8 PM. For more information, click here.)
  
• A misc. note on Rebel without a Cause (W)
• Key lines from the Rebel screenplay (W)
• Rebel gossip (W)
• poster for the teenpic Teenage Crime Wave
• Harriet Eager Davis, "How Not to Raise Our Children", Parents Magazine, August 1945 (W)
• Gays in government, from the floor of the House of Representatives, 1951 (W)
• The Caine Mutiny (V)
• Wouk, Herman, The Caine Mutiny, from the play and novel; and a somewhat negative review (W)

• ***Mary McCarthy, "The Appalachian Revolution" (B)
• McCarthy, Mary - Was she an anti-communist? (W)
• McCarthy, Mary - on "women's lib" (W)
• Twelve Angry Men (V)
  (Twelve Angry Men can be viewed on the Resnet Movie Channel on Sunday, Nov. 9, 10 PM; and Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 8 PM. For more information, click here.)
  

Wed., December 10, 7:30 PM with dinner - CONFORMITY IN THE UNIVERSITIES

• Ellen Schrecker, NO IVORY TOWER: McCARTHYISM & THE UNIVERSITIES (chapters to be handed out in photocopies)
• Samuel Yellen, "The Mystic Presences" from The Passionate Shepherd: A Book of Stories (1957) (W)
• Kerr, Clark, "Avoid Total Involvement" - excerpt from speech (W)
• The anticommunist film, Runaway Daughter (1953) (W)
• Hoge and Hoge, "The Return of the Fifties?: Values Trends at the University of Michigan, 1952 to 1989" (W)
• Raymond Allen, "Communists Should Not Teach in American Colleges" (1949) (W)
• Anticommunism at Columbia University, 1953 (W)
• Robert McNamara on the legacy of the red-baiting of the "China hands" in the making of Vietnam policy - from In Retrospect (1995) (W)
• Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 1963-64 - a narrative summary by David Burner (W)
• The Legacy of McCarthyism (W)

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