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Representative Good, another Committee member asked Putnam to define the term Witch-hunt...
...expert on that," replied Putnam. "My family was involved in the Salem witch-hunts. One of my ancestors, on my father's side, was the attorney who broke them...
Later he shouted: "I am not here to red-bait. I'm not here to witch-hunt. I'm not here to smear innocent persons." Who, then, was he there to smear? Dorgan was evasive. M.I.T.'s Dirk Struik? "Struik, they asked him if he was a Commie and he said, 'Of course not, but I'm a good Markist' (sic). And you all know what Karl Marx was. That's like saying, 'I'm not a thief but I'm a good pickpocket...
Ober had insisted that Conant implement a policy the President had backed earlier in 1949 as a members of the National Education Association Committee: that communists should not teach. But, Clark said, the University did not intend to allow a witch hunt. Conant had already allowed the University News Office to state" . . . the report of the N.E.A. Committee dealt with judgments . . . and did not attempt to discuss legal or procedural aspects of the appointment and possible dismissal of teachers...
...H.D.C.'s success was its acting. "Dark of the Moon" hangs on a cast that can find the nice balance between reality and legend; the H.D.C. has the cast. Donald Mork, as the witch-boy, pulled the play together with his intensity. Francis Hart was an effective preacher. Martha Orrick, John Miles, Ian Cadenhead and Janet Sobel skillfully held up important minor roles. Only June Northrop, as the witch boy's somewhat wooden love, let her part become stereotyped. She was the only weak person in a strong cast...