Reading your message I remember that many brazilian celebrities,
during military dictatorship, had a similar behavior as E. Kazan.
Nevertheless, some of them had a "double" (dialectical?!) activity.
They give names to military Government and, at the same time, provided=20
those persons who had their names given with "hot" information,=20
helping them to escape from jail.
For example, there was a famous TV showman (Fl=E1cio Cavalcante) that put=
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a very famous brazilian actress (Leila Diniz) - an idexed people to=20
military government - to talk in front cameras and before policemen=20
could catch her, helped her escape from them, in such a way that it was=20
like He had nothing within it. Can you understand me?
As he, we know about many others that act in a similar way, like=20
"Arlechino" by Goldonni.
Are there similar stories/histories on history like that in USA during=20
MCarthism?
in a by them Ken Goodman wrote:
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> There are some striking similarities between the -context- in which Eli=
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> Kazan named names for McCarthy and the political context of repression
> and intimidation of teachers and learners in California and the nation.
> Arthur Miller in the current Nation quotes Dalton Trumbo as saying
> everyone was a victim. But some chose jail and others collaborated to
> save themselves. Those who did not live it will probably never
> understand this difference. Now those who promote the attacks have
> learned to be much more subtle- marginalizing their targets, imposing
> their blacklists, co-opting potential opposition without providing them
> the forum to express their opposition. I started my career as a teacher
> when loyalty oaths were being imposed, when it was dangerous to teach
> about the United Nations, when many teachers were quietly fired. At
> least at that time there was visible opposition from the left and from
> others who eventually brought McCarthy down. Where is that coalition no=
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> that we need it again. Where are the unions, where are the academics wh=
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> will defend public education today?
> Ken Goodman
> --
> Kenneth S. Goodman, Professor, Language, Reading & Culture
> 504 College of Education, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
> fax 520 7456895 phone 520 6217868
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> These are mean times- and in the mean time
> We need to Learn to Live Under Water