My parents were public-school teachers and had seen friends hounded out of the system in the Communist witch hunts.

Meanwhile a number of its prominent elders (most notably Pete Seeger) were still being blacklisted in the wake of the Communist witch hunts of the 50's.

The context of Horton's life and work is suggested in well-chosen archival film on the Depression, World War II, and labor and political rallies, the latter protesting the Communist witch hunts that touched the free-thinking Horton.

That's Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly in "High Noon," the 1951 movie that like "The Crucible" was an allegorical cry of protest against the Communist witch hunts of the McCarthy era.

Deciding to wait for the Communist witch hunts to end, he and his wife left for Europe: here he did a few films.

The screenplay, which refers to the Catholic church's strong anti-Communist position in the 50's, implicitly compares his inflammatory methods with Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's Communist witch hunts.

In its gory way it mirrors the paranoia of the era of the Communist witch hunts.

"The Crucible" (1953) uses the Salem witch hunts of the late 1600's as a metaphor for the Communist witch hunts of the 1950's.

When it opened on Broadway in 1955 with Julie Harris as Joan, the play bore obvious analogies to the Communist witch hunts of the era.

In the wake of Nureyev's 1961 defection, the Kirov became, in effect, "a mini police state" that rewarded its dancers "less on the basis of merit than according to one's history of cooperation" with Communist witch hunts.