Word: carthyism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...