Word: mccarthyism
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...this artificial inferiority-complex, "Bundyism" is working to press all those who write or teach or research into its own image, and crusading against the few who, like William F. Buckley, Jr. of Yale fame, stand firm against it. Bundyism has been so successful that it has eclipsed even McCarthyism in repression of struggling young writers, instructors, and scientists...
Thus, the list of isms has swelled by one more, and to Communism, Socialism, McCarthyism, Neutralism, Liberalism, Hooverism, Syndicalism, Pacifism, Militarism, and so on must be added another, McGeorge Bundyism. Soon there may be no belief, attitude, or mode of expression that has not been fliply disposed of by its classification as an ism. Perhaps a similar fate may befall even that last outpost of good sense, the Saturday Evening Post itself...
Bundy supplies connective material in each chapter and a preface in which he answers the Secretary's critics including the "academic men-of-good-will" who consider him "a prisoner of his critics" and "thus a tool of blind reaction." In discussing McCarthyism, Bundy says, "One way out of this difficulty would be to ignore the Senator, or to reply to his accusations with a short and satisfying word," but he goes on to include a comprehensive section on "Security and Loyalty in the Department of State...
Radcliffe's Students for Democratie Action will present a forum: "Three Analyses of McCarthyism" tonight in the Briggs Hall Living Room between...
...Well then," we said, "Capp's interested in politics. Suppose we ask him about McCarthyism...