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Article: Whittaker Chambers remembered; the imperatives of the heart. (includes a related article on the television program Moonlighting)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- August 1, 1986
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WHITTAKER CHAMBERS REMEMBERED
Twenty-five years ago, on July 9, Whittaker Chambers died. He was born on April Fools' Day in 1901; he died, then, by contemporary standards, a relatively young man. When he agreed to give witness, he resigned from the editorial board of Time magazine, an act both of chivalry and of duty: Time would need, in the months ahead, to report on the greatest courtroom drama since William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow fought about whether we are descended from apes or angels. The second trial was in a sense a continuation of the first. If Communism prevails, then that in man which is in imitation of the beast, rather than of God, will ...