Word: mccarthyism
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...most virulent, apocalyptic commentators thought that it might go on forever or end in victory for one side or the other. Perhaps America is fortunate in that no public passion seems to endure very long. Harvard Sociologist Seymour Lipset has calculated that American social obsessions-from Know Nothingism to McCarthyism -have a life cycle of four to five years. After that they quickly fade. The generational battle was true to the norm...
...Crimson found itself unable to continue throughout the war, and in 1943, the Harvard Service News appeared. This offspring served as a caretaker organization until the editors returned from Europe--returned for the battle against McCarthyism and the complacency of the fifties...
...major riots while my father has been in office-and do all the other things?" Another time she observed: "I think the press is getting its due credit for bringing this whole murky thing out in the open. But all these unnamed sources they use-those are old McCarthyism tactics that hurt innocent people...
...There is going to be a severe backlash against the sordid press McCarthyism and intellectual punksterism of those who sought so mindlessly to tear down a great President, a great office and a great nation." The Dallas Morning News chided "zealous communicators hot on the trail of Watergate" for ignoring the principle that innocence must be presumed until guilt is proved...
...this is a long jump indeed from Joe's irresponsible guerrilla tactics back in the days when McCarthyism was a kind of Washington swamp fever. He dealt in false allegations that various public officials (and distinguished private citizens too) were either Communists or dupes of Communism. He attacked not just alleged Communists but also their colleagues, friends and relatives. He almost never seriously tried to check facts. Finally, he was backed by a whole apparatus of secret interrogations and blacklists by which a victim could be deprived of reputation and livelihood without any chance to defend himself. The term...