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Felix Fejevary is the head of the board of trustees of Morton College, founded by Silas Morton 40 years earlier. He is determined to develop the college into an elite university but needs state funding. With the Red Scare inciting intense anti-radical sentiment, this means bending to the will of politicians who want to purge the college of any political agitation. Madeline, Felix’s niece and a student at Morton, was arrested for hitting a police officer with a tennis racket while protesting on
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FEJEVARY: May I ask why you have appointed yourself guardian of these strangers?
MADELINE: Perhaps because they are strangers.
FEJEVARY: Well, they're the wrong kind of strangers.
MADELINE: Is it true that the Hindu who was here last year is to be deported? Is America going to turn him over to the government he fought?
FEJEVARY: I have an idea they will all be
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