Word: mccarranism
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...drafted to participate in the Korean War in 1951, at the height of the "Red scare." Because he feared persecution for his involvement in leftist groups while at Harvard and afterward, he lied about his Communist activities when faced with the loyalty oath required of all draftees under the McCarran...
...fair to say that Las Vegas is in denial, which probably explains the local predilection for smarmy euphemism. From Wayne Newton on down, every man in Vegas calls every woman a lady. One of the local abortion clinics is called A Lady's Needs. Signs all over McCarran Airport declare it a nonsmoking building, yet just as noticeable as the banks of slot machines is the reek of old cigarettes. It strikes almost no one as ironic that the patron of the M.B. Dalitz Religious School is the late Moe Dalitz, the celebrated gangster...
...result, a series of racism-tinted national-origins laws passed during the 1920s established an annual immigration quota of 150,000 that favored established groups like the Germans and Irish. Some nationalities, notably the Japanese, were excluded entirely. The national-origins system was preserved in the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act, though that notorious law did establish tiny quotas -- 100 or so a year -- for such previously barred groups as Indians and Filipinos...
...this freedom is ironic, since Wilbur is a master of the occasional poem. Reminiscing in his office in the Library of Congress, he observes, "I suppose, more than most poets of my generation, I've written public poems and direct communications." These include "Speech for the Repeal of the McCarran Act" (1956), an oblique critique of U.S. immigration law, and "For the Student Strikers" (1970), a cadenced plea for moderation during a time of trouble at Wesleyan University. Still, Wilbur likes to be provoked into poetry on his own. "I received a letter from a professor recently saying, 'Oh, come...
...several foreign visitors, including Nicaragua's Interior Minister Tomas Borge Martinez and former Italian General Nino Pasti. In the meantime, Randall remains in the U.S. while preparing to make her case before an immigration appeals board. But in a federal lawsuit she is pressing a separate challenge to McCarran-Walter itself. Her suit has been joined by PEN American Center, a writers' advocacy group, and eight prominent American authors, including Novelists Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut and Alice Walker and Playwright Arthur Miller...