Word: mccarthyism
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...McCarthyism Discussed...
...with a choice of giving a more important position to one of two significant stories, will pick the one which it feels most reflects its own subjective idea of which is the better of the conflicting sides of an argument. Just as we play a statement by Pusey on McCarthyism over a statement by McCarthy on Harvard, we will continue to make this kind of decision on a subjective basis. If one looks back on last fall's national election reporting, he will see in a paper like the New York Heraid Tribune that an Elsenhower speech always...
...cable read, "Congratulations on your fine speech. We're behind you in your fight against both communism and McCarthyism. Thank you for your inspiring defense of our free democratic heritage. Keep it up Signed: 441 students and faculty of Harvard College. Names follow by mail...
...H.L.U. last spring distributed a poll on Harvard reaction to McCarthy and his methods. "An overwhelming majority disapproved of McCarthyism," Villers said, "and I'm sure that the same majority would agree with Truman's point in his Monday night speech." Monday, Truman had defended his appointment of Harry Dexter White and had attacked McCarthyism as the "big lie and the unfounded accusation...
...bedsheet hoods, hundreds of students swarmed across the campus chanting, "Burn McCarthy!" and "Down with Joe!" After the dummy guest of honor had been hanged from a scaffold and put to the torch, speakers denounced McCarthy's "terror tactics." An outgrowth of days of bull sessions on "McCarthyism." the demonstration evoked mixed reactions even on the campus. When the student newspaper Varsity took a favorable stand. News Editor Paul Bacon resigned, commenting: "I dislike Communism to the extent that I feel any measures directed against its destruction are fair." Varsity insisted: "The burning succeeded in its purpose ... It brought...