Liberal Culture

Half-Truths and Social ConsciencenThe Nation has published an excerptnfrom a book by a certain Nora Sayrenentitled Cold-War Cinema. In it, thenauthoress derides the grotesque crudenness and vulgarity of the Hollywoodnanticommunist movies of the '50s.nNow, everybody knows that most ofnthose movies were hopelessly simplisticnand trivial, often to the . . .