Word: mccarthyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggestion that draft dissenters be reclassified, Reagan admitted that "emotionally I could go along with him" but "intellectually I realize we can't make military service punitive." The anti-Johsonian candidacy of Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy provided Reagan with another effective one-liner: "This is the type of McCarthyism I heartily approve of-anything that's divisive among Democrats is constructive to Republicans...
...traveled to Moscow in 1966 to deliver a major address at the 1966 International Congress of Mathematicians and to receive one of the Fields Medals, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of mathematics.S In Moscow, Smale, pointing, as he put it, to "a real danger of a new McCarthyism in America," denounced both "American military intervention in Vietnam" as "horrible" as well as what he termed the "brutal intervening" of Russian troops in Hungary in 1956. 'Never," Smale said, "could I see justification for military intervention, 10 years ago in Hungary or now in the much more dangerous...
...relatively few, noisy disciples of McCarthyism created a highly inaccurate picture of the place of patriotism in the U.S. and gave it a bad name. The truth is that most Americans are casual patriots most of the time. Whatever national loyalty a man feels is indirect, the product of satisfaction with his job, family, friends, union, church, country. If asked what other country he might prefer, he draws a blank. Rarely have Americans hated America enough to commit treason, renounce citizenship or denigrate their country while abroad. Saul Alinsky, the professional agitator, says with some surprised self-analysis...
...hope is that there will be another change in feeling, that sterile extremism will go the way of McCarthyism, that Americans, young as well as old, will return to a Lincolnian patriotism that permits each man pride in his own country and strives for a world in which all men can pursue their own ideal of freedom...
...Hoffmann's plan are unlikely to materalize. No University committee could be empowered to make public requests for individual testimony. And if one fact has emerged clearly from the whole Dow debate, it is the continuing awareness at Harvard, and particularly among the Faculty, of the dangers of McCarthyism--from right or left. This awareness is the best possible protection against a witch-hunt in the University community...