Word: birching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second striking thing about the Policy Statement is how reminiscent in mood and tone it is of the pronouncements of the radical right. The Birch Society people tell us that the terrors of the present situation could be magically eliminated if only spies and subversives could be rooted out from our midst. The Peace Marchers, too, seem to have turned to magic as an escape from the endless agonies of patient, careful, analytical weighing of risks, alternatives and interests on a principled basis. Both extremes seem unable to face the responsibilities of power...
...Grounds for the Impeachment of Earl Warren." Eddie flunked out of the U.C.L.A. engineering school, attended Los Angeles City College for a year, is now taking extension courses in engineering at U.C.L.A. Off campus, he works as a weight analyst at Douglas Aircraft's Santa Monica plant. The Birch Society kept the text of Eddie's essay secret, but Eddie got the general idea across. On a television interview, he accused Earl Warren of following "the Communist line" in 36 Supreme Court decisions; he also recommended the impeachment of Associate Justices Hugo Black, William O. Douglas and William...
...John Birch Society generally dismisses its critics as Communists, Com-symps or, at best, Communist dupes. Last week a surprising new recruit turned up in the symp-dupe ranks: the ultra-conservative National Review...
...Review, founded in 1955 by William F. (God and Man at Yale) Buckley Jr., is an increasingly lively, literate journal that is constantly goading the "Liberal Establishment." But many a liberal organ might have envied the Review's devastating analysis of the thinking of the Birch Society's founder, onetime Boston Candymaker Robert Welch...
Buckley actually approves of the John Birch Society ("I hope it thrives"), but has been more and more bothered by its founder's antics. Last April Buckley said in print that there were "grave differences" between his own conservative creed and that of retired Taffy-Puller Welch. Besides, last week's Review editorial was bound to brew another of the ideological storms on which Buckley and the Review seem to thrive...