Sorry to have missed that one, Sawz, 'cause it looks as if it came outta WMRA, which, BTW, has had me on their Saturday night show (The Blues Porfessa...)playin live blues and answering questions... But my computer ain't into loadin' up that much stuff so let me guess what it was about... Tell me how close I am...

I'm guessing this was about the 30s... If there was ever an exciting time to be an intellectual it would have been the 20s and 30s... AmI close??? If not, then you have me stumped seein' as I can't load whatever it is that you have linked... If it is the 30s then, yeah, I certainly understand the history here... This was before the all out Cold War and demonization of communism... This is when there was alot more intellectual freedom in the US... Yeah, lots of humanistic movements were underway... Not only for racial equality but for worker equality... Those were times that I should have been part of... I am so envious of the folks who lived then and were in their prime and had so much hope optimism... The entirte Art Deco style just shouted out "Possibility for Mankind"... It wasn't just the communists but the socialists and the unionists....

Yeah, I might of guessed wrong on waht NPR had to say and if so, hey, maybe they were workin' a different angle, I donno... I do know that the intellectuuals of the 20s and 30s were really the folks who laid the groundwork for our modern society and they deserve all the credit in the world for their efforts... They impacted everything...

It's too bad that our country has come to be suspect of intellectuals as if they are the enemy... After all, it is these people who have the vision... These are the potential problem solvers because of that curiosity... They are also the humanists whoes kids and grandkids marched for civil rights...

Yeah, my mom is one... She is my "commie mommie"... This was her generation and when civil rights came along she was there getting arrested over and over...

Too bad that our country---no, some in our country who represent the industrialists and have the money to shape public opinion-- no longer has any need for intellectuals... No make that, doesn't think they have any need for intellectuals... Yeah, historically the intellectuals were the communists, the socialists, the unionsits... These folks fought the battles for civil right, for human rights...

Yeah, okay, Sawz... Maybe I guess wrong this NPR piece but I haven't guessed wrong the significance of the communists in their role of pushing forward a more humanistic agenda, civil rights inclucded...

B~