Fortunately, it's not people in the arts currently sweating. Actually, it was when McCarthy started going after the Army that he started to slide. The Armed Forces closes ranks when it has to. I suspect the House and Senate will as well, as far as they are able. But now it's Six Degrees Of Separation time, for Paul Robeson, no stranger to Washington's underbelly himself, is connected to some of the above named composers through performance and recording. This of course means nothing, unless you're mooching off people by claiming to be the son of Paul Robeson.