Word: mccarthyism
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...president, Charles J. Egan '54, once likened HRAAA's tactics to McCarthyism, calling the campaign a personal effort by HRAAA Executive Director Robert P. Wolff '54 to "float his own social agenda...
...Reagan: keep the message issueless and content-free. Through most of the week, the candidate kept being upstaged by his own warm-up speakers. Finally, last Friday, Dukakis displayed some belated fire while campaigning in Texas, when he likened Bush's posturing on the Pledge of Allegiance to McCarthyism: "Now they're attacking my patriotism, and just as they did in the 1950s, the American people can smell the garbage...
...interest in student activism picked up with the collapse of Reaganistic policies," says Miller. He sees a similarity between the state of the country today, as Reagan's presidency nears its end, and the political climate of the early 1960s, when a comparatively liberal Democratic government replaced McCarthyism and the Eisenhower administration...
...most improbable plot threads from Hollywood's blackest comedy thriller of the Camelot era unravel in real life: deja vu of McCarthyism, prophecy of the Kennedy assassination. The film's star, a Kennedy pal, withdraws this daft, dark masterpiece from theatrical circulation, then keeps it hidden for a quarter-century...
...understanding, measured himself within these terms, and found himself not guilty. But he never stepped outside of those terms, never attempted to understand the source of the complaint. Instead he has turned the whole situation full circle, proclaimed himself victim, and resorted to childish name-calling and irrational comparisons. "McCarthyism of the left" and "witch-hunt" are more than a little extreme. The complaint is not an attempt to spitefully purge society of outsiders, nor is it xenophobia, nor is it fear of something unseen. This is not politics--this is personal; it is his proclamations about Black life that...