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Mitchell described how Mc-Carthyism of the1950s strongly re-sembled "witch crazes" ofearlier centuries...
...story. Some of the characters, including Ivy and Irving, are vividly etched. Others, despite the colorful capsule case histories Auchincloss graciously offers, are not quite comprehensible. Unfortunately, Elesina is one of the incomplete characters. The rich, spoiled beauty is quite frankly not believable in her role as a Republican Carthyism, (which Auchincloss treats frothily as a minor disturbance...
SCOUNDREL TIME by Lillian Hellman. After years of silence, the formidable author vents her fury about her costly encounters with the Mc-Carthyism of the early...
...York City itself is a conglomerate of minorities that make up a majority. The city's Irish-Catholic population, 1,000,000 strong and predominantly Roman Catholic, swung against Adlai Stevenson, partly out of the appeal of Mc-Carthyism and doubts about Stevenson's firmness against Communism. The religion issue seems to have brought back most of them to the Democrats. Last week Pollster Samuel Lubell reported: "More than half the pro-Eisenhower Catholics interviewed in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens talk of voting for Senator Kennedy." As for the city's 2,400,000 Jews, their vague...
...gallant hopes of yesterday have given way to the sorry confusion of today. [They] have been replaced by the four fears-fear of depression; fear of Communism; fear of ourselves; fear, if you please, of freedom itself." Stevenson did not name Senator McCarthy during an obvious attack on Mc-Carthyism, in which, he charged, "the Bill of Rights is besieged, ancient liberties infringed." He did, however, mention Attorney General Herbert Brownell, "the chief law-enforcement officer of the nation, the very embodiment of our concept of justice, [who] has even imputed disloyalty or Communist sympathy to a former President while...