Word: mccarthyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Those Coronations. As a vaguely "loyal" Briton, this bothers him. He publicly refuses to swear that he will not overthrow the Government of the United States by force and so sparks a bout of local McCarthyism (the late Senator's name still evokes crocodile fears in liberal British hearts), from which he emerges an embarrassed hero. Agog with admiration, a leggy, Kierkegaard-quoting girl bagpiper sweeps him off in her car for a premarital shakedown trip to Mexico, where she hopes to make a real swinger of him, but, depressed by his invincible fuddy-duddery, gives...
...McCarthyism is not completely dead, it is not just an abberation of the past. Communists are not allowed on American campuses today because the present-day McCarthies are afraid that students and faculty will suddenly find out how creative and relevant Marxists and Communists really...
...regret very much we cannot sign our names or invite you to cover our meetings - but as we have said, McCarthyism is not dead, and McCarranism is very much alive. In 1965 it is still only semi-legal to be a Communist in America, but we are confident that the day is not too far off when Communists will take their rightful, open places on American faculties, in American student bodies and in every phase of American life. Communist Party, U.S.A. Boston Area Youth Club
...decline of ideology, the large causes and massive generalizations of past decades have vanished. The Marxist Utopia broke down in shame and despair-but the relatively simple anti-Communism of the early cold war years is no longer tenable either. Nothing as large and easy as antiFascism or anti-McCarthyism is available to the intellectual today. The Government has so steadily adopted the radical programs of yesterday that some intellectuals are desperately trying to stay left of Washington and attempting, not very successfully, to create "a new radicalism." There are plenty of causes left in a far from perfect world...
Today's SACB hearings in Boston are nothing more than an embarrassing reminder of McCarthyism. The attorney-general should recognize this and withdraw all the petitions which he now has before the SACB, thus ending the board's activities (which, incidently, now cost roughly $400,000 per year). And the Congress could do even more towards destroying the vestiges of a disgraceful era (and preventing its recurrence) by repealing the Internal Security...