Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sights and Spectacles, 1937-1956
This was not difficult, for most books, plays, and films were sitting ducks. You could attack them in all honesty. Moreover, nobody else did it. Conformity in the American cultural scene was not introduced by Senator mccarthy. In 1937, there was the conformity of nice people, the conformity of the Communists and their rings of fellow travelers and sympathizers, and the conformity Of the cash register; sometimes all three blended into one hosannah for the plays Of Clifford Odets, say, or the Federal Thea tre's Living Newspaper. One of my friends, I remember, sat behind J. P. Morgan at a performance Of The Cradle Will Rock, an hysterical lampoon on capitalism, and watched him rub his white head in mild perturbation. We on Partisan Review were the only ones, as I recall, who were attacking right and left from an independent posi tion. This remained true during the war too.
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