Word: mccarthyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a measure of personal liberty." Nonetheless, he did not shy from outspoken criticism of many American policies and beliefs. The United State, he argued, forced the Chinese to accept Communism by leaving them no other alternative to the "corrupt" Chiang Kai-shek. In addition, he roundly attacked McCarthyism on countless occasions...
...McCARTHYISM: "Only the other day I ran into a memorandum I wrote to myself about April 1953. In this memorandum I said: 'I have looked over this matter ever since it's come to my attention, and I am convinced that the way for me to defeat Senator McCarthy is to ignore him. Never to admit that he has damaged me, upset me.' As far as I can recall, I never mentioned his name, and I happen to know that this had a very great effect...
...entries. Gone are the gazetteer, the biographical dictionary, and 100,000 obsolete or nonlexical terms, such as the names of characters in Dickens. In are 100,000 brand-new terms, from astronaut, beatnik, boo-boo, countdown, den mother and drip-dry, to footsie, hard sell, mccarthyism, no-show, schlemiel, sit-in, wage dividend...
Doubtless there are many ways in which the USIA might be improved. But surely such improvements will result from constructive suggestions, not editorial anacolutha. I have known some brave and competent men in the USIA who suffered from McCarthyism and I think your editorial does them less than justice. Glen D. Camp, Jr. '53, Former USIA Asst. Information Officer
Playing down big-time athletics, Gallagher stressed high moral standards. In 1954, at the height of faculty fear of McCarthyism in the colleges, he dismissed the Senator with "It is time for us to remind an ambitious politician that the American college and university are welded into an anvil which has worn out many hammers." Last fall he faced another kind of problem: student editors began to give a campus newspaper a "Marxistoriented" sound. Gallagher, shunning censorship, discredited them in a fact-filled brief...