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What lies behind facts like these: that so recently one could not have said Scott was not perfect without earning at least sorrowful disapproval; that a year after the Gang of Four were perfect, they were villains; that in the fifties in the United States a nothing-man called McCarthy was able to intimidate and terrorise sane and sensible people, but that in the sixties young people summoned before similar committees simply laughed.
- Doris Lessing
Attribution: Doris Lessing (b. 1919), British novelist. Afterword, The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, p. 125, Knopf (1982).
Categories: History, Politics
