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Subject: MCCARTHYISM
Matches Found: 5

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FOR ETHEL ROSENBERG, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Europe 1953: / throughout my random sleepwalk
Last Line: With secrets she has never sold
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Capital Punishment; Communism; Mccarthyism; Rosenberg Case; Nuclear Freeze; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Rosenberg, Ethel; Rosenberg, Julius


PEEKSKILL, by AARON KRAMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through every window of this land our song will go
Last Line: It will go through every window of this land!
Subject(s): Mccarthyism; Social Protest


THE DEATH OF A PUBLIC SERVANT; IN MEMORIAM, HERBERT NORMAN, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a day when good men die from windows
Last Line: Take these to your shade: of rage, of grief, of love.
Subject(s): Defamation; Mccarthyism; Suicide; Women; Women's Rights; Slander; Libel; Feminism


TO ONE 'INVESTIGATED' BY THE LAST SENATE COMMITTEE, OR THE NEXT, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And though the walls have ears
Last Line: To make a craven safety / count for honor's part
Subject(s): Mccarthyism; United States - Congress - Senate


TO ONE 'INVESTIGATED' BY THE LAST SENATE COMMITTEE, OR THE NEXT, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And though the walls have ears
Last Line: To make a craven safety %count for honor's part
Subject(s): Mccarthyism; U.s. - Congress - Senate