... the hands of another. The HUAC members, drunk with the power they had over the rich and famous, gloried in the publicity they got by quizzing big stars John Garfield, playwrights Arthur Miller, Lillian Hellman and screenwriters Dalton Trumbo. The Hollywood studios fell right in line, blacklisting those people who would not "cooperate." So the classic debating question had become a nightmare ... reality: "Choose your friends, or your country." Few government agencies have been more "un-American" than HUAC, more opposed to what the nation stands for. But red-hunting gave it such publicity...

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... ; however, he soon found his place in the world of theatre as a playwright. In 1935 Odets first play on Broadway, Waiting for Lefty, was a smash hit. His affiliation with the American Communist party is strongly noticeable in all most all of his early works and especially Waiting for Lefty. Awake and Sing came shortly after and helped establish Odets as a prominent ... views and understanding of the common man odets gave the world a moral tail mixed with his left wing views and inturn propelled waiting for lefty into the history books of American theatre. Odets views of social reform are...

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