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...LAST OF THE JUST (374 pp.)-André Schwarz-Bart-Atheneum...
...Club billed as "the debate of the century." The head of the Massachusetts Communist Party and an "evangelical Baptist" who is executive director of the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade debated the question, "Resolved: That Communists should be expelled from our university faculties." Speaking for the affirmative, Dr. Fred C. Schwarz, a surgeon and psychiatrist from Sydney, Australia, limited his argument to "members of the Communist Party" and contended they should be excluded from faculties both for "their relationship toward truth" and for the program which Party members are dedicated to carry...
After quoting several Communist writers, who referred to "international struggle" and "the dictatorship of the proletariat," Schwarz concluded that "a man who has renounced his conscience has no place on the faculty of a free university." He then cited numerous purge actions in the U.S.S.R., adding that the only thing that prevented Stalin from completing a purge in the Ukraine was a shortage of box cars...
After Hood had devoted his rebuttal almost exclusively to considerations of alleged Communist brutality and to warnings of "McCarthyism" in this country, Schwarz accused his opponent of relying on "paranoic argument" and pointed out that Hood had dodged the question by not once mentioning the Communist Party in the United States and its aims...
...Shrew of Aubrey Schwarz is especially fascinating because it has such strident symbolic power. Schwarz borrows his technique from Durer's enamel engravings, but the daring placement of the shrew, the uncanny emphasis on its very white eye belongs to the modern period. Without losing its descriptive accuracy, The Shrew is designed as a harrowing picture; the animal shown is an image of horrid, unfathomable evil...