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Article: OBITUARY: Corliss Lamont
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 12, 1995
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Corliss Lamont was a great American dissenter, humanist,
philosopher and philanthropist.
Born to the purple of New York society, he was a champion of
civil rights organisations in the United States in the post-war era
and a sometime chairman of the Friends of the Soviet Union who came
to be reviled as a "bolshie" and a "lounge lizard upholding the
communist system" by the establishment press. He was hounded by
Senator Joseph McCarthy, accused of subversive activities, and
early on in his career a columnist in the New York Daily News
wrote, "The intellectuals from Plato to Karl Marx and Corliss
Lamont are the pests of the human race."
Senator McCarthy declared war in 1953. Lamont was ...