Dwight McDonald person
also: McDonald
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CIA funded
Dwight McDonald documented
“Unquote. Many artists and intellectuals fell into the ranks of the CIA generously funded culture war, including author Schlesinger Jr., Mary McCarthy, Robert Lowell, Dwight McDonald, Daniel Bell, Isaiah Berlin, George Plimpton, Peter Mathes…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 41:42
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▶ 41:42
Unquote. Many artists and intellectuals fell into the ranks of the CIA generously funded culture war, including author Schlesinger Jr., Mary McCarthy, Robert Lowell, Dwight McDonald, Daniel Bell, Isaiah Berlin, George Plimpton, Peter Mathes…
▶ 44:03
Those CIA-approved intellectuals who dared to assert their independence soon found that once welcoming doors were closed permanently. In 1958, Dwight McDonald, a frequent intellectual sparring partner of his friend Mills, broke out of the C…
▶ 44:32
There was nothing particularly surprising in the article, but the article was deemed unacceptable by the editors of Encounter. And though McDonald was a former editor there, they refused to publish it. Like many in the CIA-sponsored literar…