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| | Naming Names, Chap. 7 |
 | | Kazan appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee twice, the first time in January 1952, when he answered all questions except the one about what people he knew to be members of the Communist Party between the summer of 1934, when he joined it, and the spring of 1936, when he left. |
 | | Kazan mentioned a jury on which he had served that was about to acquit a guilty man because the only evidence against him was provided by a police informant, until Kazan and the critic Alfred Kazin, who was also on the jury, intervened and carried the day. |
 | | Yet each of Kazan's hints are themes that anticipate or echo more elaborate justifications advanced by other informers more willing or able to share their experience, to explain and try to understand out loud why they did what they did, to subject their "reasons why" to the tests of conversation, consideration, logic, analysis. |
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