Word: mccarthyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read your articles on the John Birch Society and Operation Abolition with alarm. The Americanists and the House Committee on Un-American Activities show a backward trend toward McCarthyism. Most Americans are loyal to their country. They need rather to be reminded of the basic freedoms upon which it was founded. One of these is the freedom of speech, which includes the right to disagree with an opinion even when it is that of the esteemed House committee-without being classified as Communist or Communist-duped...
...employees for using the constitutional guarantees which are their right. It contains unmistakable overtones of personal vengeance (The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Association is headed by Harry Bridges, whom Chairman Walter has denounced publicly but has been unable to touch). It resuscitates, in short, the spirit of McCarthyism...
...degree by love of money and of security. In this situation, the usual English envy-hatred syndrome focuses upon the American undergraduates who resent being taunted for having money, especially when they don't have it. One Yank at Oxford suffers one gibe too many at American opulence, McCarthyism, U.S. football and so on, and retorts with tart justice: "At least we don't sit around talking about pension plans before we've even graduated...
During his decade as Boylston Professor, MacLeish has written four more plays. In The Trojan Horse (1952) he turned Homer's tale into a tragic and powerful parable about McCarthyism and the destructive force of fear and unreason. He specifically authorized its production without scenery, or over the radio. This Music Crept By Me Upon the Waters (1953), a comedy about five couples who have withdrawn from the banalities of the business world to a "paradise" in the Antilles, does not succeed; its obscurities prevent it from working on the stage...
According to Hars, both progressive movements of this century were followed by great World Wars and periods of intense nationalism. He drew a parallel between the 1919 "Red Scare" and McCarthyism...