Word: mccarthyism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this prank laughs off a more serious theme of the class's years here. McCarthy scared Harvard. Charging that the faculty was "pink-tinged," he created an atmosphere of mistrust and precipitated internal struggles at the University. David L. Shapiro, professor of Law, says, "The fact of McCarthyism was our significant external concern--the only time we felt acutely the presence of the outside world...
...final years Einstein was an outspoken foe of McCarthyism, which he felt was an echo of the turbulent events that had preceded the downfall of Germany's Weimar Republic. He urged intellectuals to defy what he considered congressional inquisitions, even at the risk of "jail and economic ruin." He was widely denounced, and Senator Joseph McCarthy called him "an enemy of America." In his last public act, Einstein joined Bertrand Russell and other scholars in a desperate plea for a ban on all warfare...
...strong belief. In the old movie, a smalltown doctor and his lady bravely, exhaustingly and with no assistance tried to resist the takeover. In its day, Invasion made a moving, and exciting film. Among other things, it was a metaphorical assault on the times when, under the impress of McCarthyism and two barbecues in every backyard, the entire Lonely Crowd seemed to be turning into pod people. The remakers have missed that point, failing to update the metaphor so that it effectively attacks the noisier, more self-absorbed conformity...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology Emeritus, an expert on mineral resources and an outspoken critic of McCarthyism, died Sunday at the Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was 90 years...
...West Germany's liberal community, the restrictive laws, including a regulation that allows government officials to deny civil service jobs to people on suspicion of radical activities, smack of McCarthyism. "It's simplistic to say there is an underlying trend toward fascism," says Gerald Grünwald, professor of criminal procedure at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn, "but there is a tendency toward an authoritarian state and a limitation of freedom." Notes Margret Möller, legal adviser to the Christian Democratic Union, whose conservative members push for even more stringent restrictions: "Nonsense, these people, the terrorists...