Word: mccarthyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rather, as students morally committed against the war, they must oppose--and even obstruct--complicity with the war where they have the most power, in the University. Their decision to adopt what many Faculty members call "McCarthyism of the left" doesn't bother them. They care about Vietnam, and U.S. foreign policy in the 1960s not the repressive atmosphere of more than a decade...
POLITICAL debate has not always steamed the windows and bored the ascetes of college dining halls. In fact, the tab collar set of the '50's were just so un-radical they were dubbed "The Silent Generation." Growing up under McCarthyism, they had an instinctive fear of speaking out against the status quo. The newness of the hydrogen bomb and the strength of the Communist monolith validated the Cold War with an incredible rationality...
...conduct of Government. Dean Rusk, whose State Department intelligence apparatus had long since assessed the degree and role of Communist influence within the antiwar movement, said earlier this month that "we haven't made public the extent of our knowledge" for fear of setting off "a new McCarthyism...
...some of it is due to the Administration's failure to explain its policies." Regardless of the strategic importance of South Vietnam, Huntington comments, American success there has become vital for domestic stability. Withdrawal now, he says, would be followed by "an incredibly strong rightist reaction that would make McCarthyism look like pink...
...frustration that now characterize the left." The Wallace campaign, though forged in the same spirit of ostensible unity that pervades the Levinson-Kearns article, contributed to the collapse of the left in the '40's as a potent political force. Maybe it contributed as well to the rise of McCarthyism...