Elia Kazan and ultra-purism

[steve at panix.com]

Max Sawicky said:
> 
> ...I don't fault him.  I still say
> you stand by your friends first, whether it's Sid B
> or Kazan.  If your friends are scum, that's your cross
> to bear.

Beatty might not have gone out of his way to attack Kazan, and for that 
could have been seen to have repaid his debt (assuming anything like a
debt was still owed), but being amongst the first to rise and applaud him
is unacceptable.

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