Lillian Hellman and cake
Our September evening book club meeting celebrated our discussion club's 10th anniversary with a delicious cake and musings about our "history".
We discussed "Scoundrel Time" by Lillian Hellman and we decided that a discussion of the McCarthy Hearings was politically apropos. Interestingly, one member did not know of the House Committee on Anti-American Activities and learned a lot from our animated discussion.
Hellman appeared before the committee (scared but brave) and was one of the few who did not list her friends who belonged to groups that might be considered "un-American".
We all wondered if we would have been as brave but, we were sure she chose the correct path.
Her famous quote was appreciated and applauded: "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."
We discussed "Scoundrel Time" by Lillian Hellman and we decided that a discussion of the McCarthy Hearings was politically apropos. Interestingly, one member did not know of the House Committee on Anti-American Activities and learned a lot from our animated discussion.
Hellman appeared before the committee (scared but brave) and was one of the few who did not list her friends who belonged to groups that might be considered "un-American".
We all wondered if we would have been as brave but, we were sure she chose the correct path.
Her famous quote was appreciated and applauded: "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."
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