[DOC] [TLE] "I Cannot and Will Not Cut My Conscience to Fit This Year's ... [PAR] I Cannot and Will Not Cut My Conscience to Fit This Year's Fashions: Lillian ... 
to HUAC's chairman, Hellman offered to testify as to her own activities if she ... As 
you know, I am under subpoena to appear before your committee on May 21, 
1952. ... me: To try to tell the truth, not to bear false witness, not to harm my 
neighbor,... [DOC] [TLE] The Antagonist: On Lillian Hellman | The Nation [PAR] Aug 29, 2012 ... She was perhaps the most famous woman playwright in the world, yet one who 
thought it ... In 1952, Hellman was subpoenaed to appear before the House 
Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). ... indecent and dishonorable, 
adding: I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions,... [DOC] [TLE] Lillian Hellman - Wikipedia [PAR] Lillian Florence "Lilly" Hellman (June 20, 1905  June 30, 1984) was an 
American dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on 
Broadway, as well as her left-wing sympathies and political activism. She 
famously was blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American ... Hellman 
was praised by many for refusing to answer questions by HUAC. [DOC] [TLE] Lillian Hellman - Wikiquote [PAR] I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though ... 
Activities (HUAC) of the US House of Representatives (May 19, 1952) ... If 
someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll 
sue you... [DOC] [TLE] Playwright Lillian Hellman Rebukes HUAC | Today in Civil Liberties ... [PAR] 1952 May 21 ... I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions . 
... She was called before HUAC because of her left-wing political views and... [DOC] [TLE] The scandalous Lillian Hellman | Stage | The Guardian [PAR] Jan 21, 2011 ... In a letter published in the New York Times in May 1952, she informed the ... I 
cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. ... the moral high 
ground in her dealings with the HUAC understandably enraging, given ... Having 
told various accounts of their first meeting (in the most picturesque,... [DOC] [TLE] Lillian Hellman vs. Mary McCarthy: Did Their Dispute Foreshadow ... [PAR] Jul 12, 2011 ... She rejected feminism and lamented the disappear. ... appearance before the 
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1952. ... She told the 
committee that she would consent to answer any questions about ... her actual 
testimony: I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. [DOC] [TLE] Lillian Hellman - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] Feb 17, 2014 ... Hellman appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952. 
At the time, HUAC was well aware that Hellman's longtime lover Hammett had ... I 
cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even ... As late as 
1969, according to Mellen, she told Dorothea Strauss that her... [DOC] [TLE] Heath Anthology of American LiteratureLillian Hellman - Author Page [PAR] She went on to write eight plays, including Days to Come (1936), The Little Foxes 
... the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952 as were many people in 
... and livelihood, Hellman courageously told the Committee that while she was ... 
in effect for years after her appearance before HUAC to launch a new career as... [DOC] [TLE] Lillian Hellman: The mother of invention | The Independent [PAR] Oct 2, 2001 ... "I tried in these books to tell the truth," she wrote. ... was her refusal in 1952 to tell 
HUAC the names of people who were, or may have been, ... "I cannot and will not 
cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions," she was wearing... [DOC] [TLE] War Politics: Numb and Number - Truthout [PAR] Feb 25, 2010 ...

Question: In 1952 she told the HUAC, "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions"
Answer: Lillian Hellman