McCarthyism and American Opera by Klaus-Dieter Gross

“…Quelques rares ouvrages manifestent un soutien diffus pour le McCarthyisme (Still et Nabobov), tandis que d’autres nient son impact en promouvant des idées de gauche (Robinson et Blitzstein). …”
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Witch-hunts, Theocracies and Hypocrisy: McCarthyism in Arthur Miller/ Robert Ward’s opera The Crucible and Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah by Rachel Hutchins-Viroux

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Performing Dissent: Pete Seeger and Paul Robeson before HUAC (1955-1956) by Jodie Childers

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“Un-American Confessions”: Translation as Subversion in Robert Lowell’s Life Studies (1959) by Simon Van Schalkwyk

“…Lowell’s Life Studies imitations thus represent an attempt to “cover-up” poetic collusions with foreign sources at a time when cold war “containment culture” and the specter of McCarthyism threatened to render any such collusion increasingly suspect, if not entirely “Un-American.” …”
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Chemical Engineer George L. Standart – between Science and Ideology by Věra Dvořáčková

“…He was driven to do that by his leftist mindset, his conviction that there lay a more just and peaceful world behind the Iron Curtain, and also the feeling that he was at risk in his homeland, unsettled by McCarthyism. Although he was recruited as an informer first by the Soviet, and subsequently also the Czech intelligence services, they never found his work satisfactory as an agent, a situation exacerbated by his increasing academic workload. …”
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