Word: mccarthyism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rasping voice ("Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman! Point of order!") that could not be halted by the gavel of reason. The allusion to Euripides should not keep one from remembering that, while there was tragedy in the McCarthy era. there was comedy, too. Rovere recalls that Brooks Atkinson once blamed McCarthyism for a bad Broadway season and that a noted rabbi held the Senator's influence responsible for panty raids on college dormitories...
These two examples suggest that there was probably as much hysteria among McCarthy's foes as among his followers. In a remarkably well-balanced and even-tempered book. Author Rovere (for the past eleven years Washington correspondent for The New Yorker) notes that "McCarthyism was a bipartisan doctrine." He blames not only some Republicans for tolerating Joe so long but some Democrats (notably Senators Paul Douglas and John Kennedy) for not speaking out against him. Rovere might have added that those who did speak out against McCarthy sometimes helped him by exaggerating his importance. To Rovere himself. McCarthy remains...
...most serious young students of politics hesitate to commit themselves to any proposal, platform, or program. It is well said of most College petitions on national matters that "those who sign don't read, and those who do read the don't sign." Though the the scattered remnants of McCarthyism account for some of this fear, it is both childish and self-deceptive to place even most of the blame on the late demagogue from Wisconsin. A large number of students remain politically naive, and of those who have studied the issues, many prefer to keep silent until they have...
Obnoxious as the oath is, with its concealed threat to academic freedom and its latent McCarthyism, the Pennsylvania schools' complete rejection of the beneficial aspects of the program results merely in cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. A more reasonable course for the University is to accept the Federal funds and to provide its own loan funds for students who object to the oath. There is no reason why the University can not pray for repeal with one hand while accepting the cold cash with the other...
...Academic Mind is a report on academic freedom. Based on lengthy interviews with 2500 social scientists, the book tries to appraise the effect of McCarthyism on American scholars and teachers. The questionnaires were designed by Paul Lazarsfeld and the Columbia Bureau for Applied Social Research, financed by Robert Hutchins' Fund for the Republic, and administered in 1955 by Elmo Roper and the National Opinion Research Center...