Word: mccarthyism
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Kirtley Mather, who gave written testimony in the defense of John T. Scopes in 1925 and as chairman of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts from 1946 to 1949, was an early and outspoken foe of McCarthyism...
...enter and leave the university whenever they could pass the entrance and final examinations. Hutchins later served as editorial chairman of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, associate director of the Ford Foundation, and president of the Fund for the Republic, which fought for civil liberties and became an immediate target of McCarthyism. Its resources were used to found the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, a think tank that Hutchins headed for 15 years, resuming its presidency in 1975 when it was in disarray...
PEOPLE CONSTANTLY TALK about the good old days. A few years ago, they reminisced about the flatulent fifties, a time when McCarthyism and bobby socks were in vogue. Compared to the turbulent sixties, the fifties seemed peaceful and secure. Now that the seventies have reached the home stretch, nostalgia tripping has reverted to the more stormy sixties; many students look wistfully at this bygone era of rebellion and commitment. But this "look backward" runs the risk of idealizing the past, completely ignoring the problems of the previous decade. The Dunster Drama Society production of Hair (book and lyrics by James...
...always denied) introduced the subject himself when he noted Nixon's first television interview with David Frost tonight would air on the anniversary of "the Kent State massacre." He went on during his Law School Forum appearance to link the former President to both the original creation of McCarthyism and also to the survival of similar tactics today. And he said he feared that after the Frost interview there would be a renewal of "a lot, at least qualified, support" for Nixon...
Hiss also told Ames Courtroom audience that McCarthyism had resulted in a "lack of political guts" in the United States and a weakening of the Left. "People are still timid," he said. He mentioned the exclusion of militants from labor union leadership as one example of the power of McCarthyism...