The Printed Word

Snowing Down South

Now that everybody is as much against Communism as anybody else, we are developing a new literary genre in America, namely: the article, published in nominally anti-Communist publications like the Nation or the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, that embody the Party line yet don’t stamp the author, or the publication that publishes him, as subversive. The genre has its own special problem, namely, How far can you go without going too far?