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INTERVIEWER
Did that period [of McCarthyism]—and its effect on people—appeal to you as a subject?
HELLMAN
I’ve never known how to do it. It was really a clownish period. It was full of clowns talking their heads off, apologizing, inventing sins to apologize for. And other clowns, liberals, who just took to the bills. Ugly clowning is a hard thing to write about. Few people acted large enough for drama and not pleasant enough for comedy.
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| Samuel Beckett, Anton Chekhov, William Faulkner, Mary McCarthy, Arthur Miller, Gertrude Stein, Tennessee Williams, Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Sergey Eisenstein, Dashiell Hammett, Thomas Mann, George Bernard Shaw, Voltaire, Nathanael West |
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