Word: mccarthyism
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...home rule when anti-Irish riots threatened in Manchester; it opposed Britain's entry into World War I. Under Wadsworth the paper, a nonprofit-making trust, switched its support from Labor to Tories as it deemed fit, fought British policy on Cyprus and Suez, roasted the U.S. for McCarthyism. It is a strong supporter of Adlai Stevenson, is cool toward the Eisenhower Administration and often angrily critical...
Such a trust, Adlai Stevenson is today charging, was placed on General Eisenhower in 1952, when the nation sent him to the White House with the largest popular vote in the country's history. But instead of using his popularity to sweep away McCarthyism, or to build needed schools, or to speed up the process of integration, Eisenhower has often tried to maintain personal popularity. The President's silence has left the nation devoid of inspired direction where a constructive, carefully formulated public opinion is most vital...
...last week some Britons shrieked that freedom was in peril, others clucked that care must be exercised. For the first time, Britons were grappling with the problem that the U.S. had been sweating out for years amidst British taunts of "McCarthyism": the importance of a man's associations and beliefs...
...anyway. And one bloc of hesistant support feels, "At this stage, any theory is better than no theory at all." But everyone seems impressed with the vastness of Parson's knowledge and his theoretical analyses of such specific subjects as the development of American romantic love, the causes of McCarthyism, professional roles in medicine, and the family unit in America...
Brown declared that "the form which fear had taken" two years ago has disappeared, "McCarthyism has become Mcarthy-wasn't." He appeared to feel that this removal of political suppression where a man was a conspirer if he merely "stopped to gather his thoughts" had brought about a new surge of life in the theatre...