The Liberals – Painting the Culture Red

The Liberals, III – Dore Schary

This morning, in the wee hours—your editor was suffering from insomnia—the Turner Classic Movies channel aired The Metro Goldwyn Mayer Story, a movie short with Dore Schary, MGM’s vice president in charge of production, announcing the studio’s offerings for 1951. We said this site would explore the different attitudes toward the Soviet Union on the part…

October 6, 2014

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Biography/Autobiography, Cinema, Theater

Betsy Blair, Donald Ogden Stewart, Dore Schary, Gene Kelly, HUAC, John Howard Lawson, Murray Kempton, The Liberals, Waldorf Statement

The Liberals, II — Jean-Paul Sartre versus Albert Camus

In his 1982 memoir The Truants: Adventures Among the Intellectuals, William Barrett contrasted Sartre and Camus—and noted how the Nazi occupation of Paris brought out their dissimilarities: The break between them is usually attributed to their differences over the Soviet Union . . . . Sartre at this time had begun to be an ardent…

March 31, 2014

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Biography/Autobiography, Journalism, Philosophy

Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Raymond-Leopold Bruckberger, The Liberals, William Barrett

The Liberals, I — Bruce Bliven

Here at Painting the Culture Red, a major part of our mission is to explore what liberals thought of the Soviet Union. Opinion on the Left was not monolithic. (Future posts will make this clear.) But let’s start with liberals who viewed that nation and its leader as democracy’s best hope. The New Republic has…

January 27, 2014

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Biography/Autobiography, Journalism

Bruce Bliven, Josef Stalin, Popular Front, The Liberals