Word: mccarthyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colonialist can take issue with a neo-imperialist, I should like to register my disagreement with Raymond Vernon's critique of Richard Hyland's CRIMSON tract on the Center for International Affairs. Hyland's technique was not, as Vernon alleged, a replica of McCarthyism. It was far more subtle and sophisticated-like a quality TV commercial...
Pusey said in a news conference that he called for the police because continued occupation of the administration building would have made it "virtually impossible" for the faculty to conduct its business and would have brought the university to an indefinite standstill. In defending the autonomy of Harvard against McCarthyism in the '50s, and in countless speeches since then, Nathan Pusey has amply proved his deep commitment to intellectual freedom...
Cambridge Outcast. Capp denies that he has become reactionary since becoming rich. "I was making $150,000 a year while I was still in my 20s," he says. "My job as a humorist is to find lunacy wherever it exists and expose it." For years he fought McCarthyism in his cartoon strip. "But lunacy has shifted-you can't rely on it. I find it on the left now, and that's where I'm firing...
...doorbells for someone nobody has ever heard of before," Schumer admitted. "But you know how SDS keeps going? They get a core of 25 people to work full time on some project. I've never seen a group with so much Protestant ethic." Club officers hope, perhaps mistakenly, that McCarthyism without McCarthy can whip up campus enthusiasm for Council elections and busy-work democracy...
...major underlying threat in our country to civil liberties and academic freedom. The Eastlands and Thurmonds, the bigoted and brutal police departments, the Reagans and Hayakawas constitute the real threats to cherished freedoms. What responsibilities do the professors and President Pusey in particular (whose own record against McCarthyism was far less than admirable) acknowledge in defeating these reactionary forces...