Word: mccarthyism
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Amid this immense pressure for decision, public discussion in the U.S. is dominated by one issue: McCarthyism. Abroad, among its strongest allies, public discussion of the U.S. is almost monopolized by McCarthyism...
...York Times (whose late great Managing Editor Carr Van Anda first brought Einstein to the attention of the general public) editorialized: "To employ the unnatural and illegal forces of civil disobedience, as Professor Einstein advises, is in this case to attack one evil with another. McCarthyism should be fought cleanly and openly, and it will certainly be defeated in the long run."* The tabloid New York Daily News considered the source: "The old sweetheart is a giant in his field of theoretical physics. But his political wisdom is that of a babe-in-arms. His latest antic in the political...
After reading your article ... I have these comments to make: there is a rising tide of Puritanism in America. The last election proves it; McCarthyism proves it; the constant battering of liberals proves it; the general distrust of intellectuals proves it; and the favorable reception to your article proves it. And what is this neo-Puritanism? It is an authoritarian morality that is completely intolerant of opposition; a prudishness in support of that morality; a passive and negative philosophy of life, purporting to leave all to a God that is no less prudish (the doctrine of original sin), no less...
...G.O.P. leaders were inclined, like thousands of U.S. citizens, to take the view that McCarthy might be a little rough now & then, but that he was doing a needed job. Then Republican leaders, including Senators Taft and Knowland, got a sample of what has come to be known as McCarthyism. They did not like it and they...
...were being harassed, the Communists managed to create scores of'new front organizations not yet listed by the Justice Department. The two main lines are 1) peace, e.g., anything designed to appease Russia, harm NATO and divide the U.S. from its allies; 2) civil liberties, e.g., protest against "McCarthyism." Thousands of liberals and intellectuals are still unable to distinguish between an attack that calls an innocent man a Communist and an attack that calls a Communist a Communist...