Word: mccarthyism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choice in our own minds. We thought we would have more hope of improving Soviet-American relations if John Kennedy were in the White House. We knew we couldn't count on Nixon in this regard: his aggressive attitude toward the Soviet Union, his antiCommunism, his connection with McCarthyism-all this was well known to us. In short, we had no reason to welcome the prospect of Nixon as President...
...treat the trials as historical accidents with purely personal causes, Salem Possessed makes them weighty and comprehensible in a way traditional accounts cannot. It's the difference between a polemic about the Watergate scandals and a carefully written history of the Indochina war. Or between an attack on McCarthyism as the work of misguided fanatics and a reflective consideration of its roots in real conflicts between groups of people with genuinely conflicting interests. It's the difference between fairytale and history, melodrama and tragedy...
...most virulent, apocalyptic commentators thought that it might go on forever or end in victory for one side or the other. Perhaps America is fortunate in that no public passion seems to endure very long. Harvard Sociologist Seymour Lipset has calculated that American social obsessions-from Know Nothingism to McCarthyism -have a life cycle of four to five years. After that they quickly fade. The generational battle was true to the norm...
...Crimson found itself unable to continue throughout the war, and in 1943, the Harvard Service News appeared. This offspring served as a caretaker organization until the editors returned from Europe--returned for the battle against McCarthyism and the complacency of the fifties...
...major riots while my father has been in office-and do all the other things?" Another time she observed: "I think the press is getting its due credit for bringing this whole murky thing out in the open. But all these unnamed sources they use-those are old McCarthyism tactics that hurt innocent people...