Word: mccarthyism
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...have interpersonal relations bogged down? Author Overstreet says, in effect, that love is the four-letter word modern man has forgotten. After casting a topical eye on race riots in Cicero and South Africa, on hot & cold wars, on McCarthyism and anti-McCarthyism, Overstreet concludes that just as love casts out fear, so fear casts out love...
...Richard H. Rovere, onetime Nation editor, much of the special issue of his old magazine was an example of "a spurious brand of anti-McCarthyism." Writing in the New Leader, Rovere said that the Nation's "doughface anti-McCarthyism . . . can be as dangerous as McCarthyism itself because its image of America is as false and, I am inclined to believe, as intellectually and morally disreputable as that of the Yahoos and primitives who have made McCarthy a power in the land...
...Soviet power which today breeds the anxieties which McCarthyism turns to its advantage . . . [Nation Editor Freda] Kirchwey disapproves of resistance, for she believes that Soviet power is an expression of the 'emerging forces of popular revolt'. . . In the literature of appeasement before World War II, there was at least a note of genuine tragedy. It was never, as I recall it, argued that the wave of the future would wash us clean...
Citing President Truman's recent statements about an "ultimatim," to Russia, Truman's and Secretary of State Acheson's actions in respect to Korea and Formost, and McCarthyism" as examples, Asirvatham said, "That is why we in India are reluctant to follow America's lead...we do not entirely accept the American analysis (of the world situation) or the American remedy...
...this time of year, the Young Progressives have rediscovered that their official status is in danger. Although they have fulfilled the membership list rule, they have yet to find even one member of the faculty willing to act as their adviser. This is not surprising, considering the strength of McCarthyism and allied dogmas; we can hardly condemn those faculty members who, though they may wish to sponsor the HYP Club, do not care to give Red-hunters another opportunity to attack them. Yet their refusals may mean the end of the Young Progressives as a recognized organization...