Audio Index: 36:35

Topics: McCarthyism and the House Committee on Un-American Activities; Famous Songs: Dixie; to overrate versus to overestimate; that versus so; the stakes are too high

Words:

McCarthyism

Red Scare

to play on

demagogue

hearing

to blacklist

to change (one’s) story

to gauge

sense of decency

Dixie

blackface

frost

to overrate

to overestimate

that

so

the stakes are too high