Word: mccarthyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Smith, who exhorts students to "value values," is sometimes forced to blow the whistle. He warns against "unexamined liberalism," worries that activists may forsake "scrupulously legal and nonviolent" tactics. His own record is memorable. Outspoken against McCarthyism at the height of it, he led other colleges in attacking the now repealed loyalty "disclaimer oath" in the National Defense Education Act. When his students invited Communist Gus Hall to speak on campus, Smith ignored public outcries. Hall spoke. As Smith tells old grads: "Your college has guts. There are a lot of colleges that don't. Be proud...
...months after Park seized power in 1961, and ex-Premier Huh Chung, a scholarly ex-journalist. They hit out at Park's arbitrary rule and the country's economic plight, openly revived an old charge that he had once flirted with Communism.* Park accused his foes of "McCarthyism...
Delany, a former justice of the City's Domestic Relations Court, is director of the NAACP, and long been identified with the liberal wing of New York politics. In the waning days of McCarthyism, Mayor Wagner accused him of "leftist views," and refused to reappoint him to defend Delany at the time of his dismissal, the present appointment clearly involves a risk that one does not expect presidential aspirants to take...
Griswold was also a national leader in the fight for academic freedom, opposing McCarthyism and taking a firm stand against the NDEA disclaimer affidavit...
Borgian Penumbra. Brilliant, left-wing Laborite Richard Grossman retorted caustically that McCarthyism "arises in countries when people outside suspect that the security arrangements required of the small fry are not maintained so severely at the very top." Citing the Burgess-MacLean case, Grossman charged that the government had shied away from a thorough investigation in order to "cover up" higher officials who, "if the truth had come out, would have had to go." Said he: "Now exactly the same thing seems to be happening in the Admiralty...