Word: mccarthyism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ironically, the price that Robeson paid for that vision was his own freedom to perform and travel as a man of all nations. In the heat of McCarthyism, the State Department began denying him visas to travel abroad to accept the performing offers that continued to pour in from around the globe. On June 12, 1956, he was called up before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and badgered about his ties to the Communist Party. America gave Robeson little peace in his last decade, and he had every right to turn bitter and resentful...
...language as a weapon, he has employed it as an obstacle to evil. He was the Russian of our Napoleonic phase." Others acclaimed him for his clear reporting, and his straight-to-the-heart analysis. He used his reporting for political goals. He warned of the dangers of McCarthyism when it was just starting to froth up. He began a written and spoken resistance to the Vietnam War long before doing so was fashionable. He has attacked the arms race, the rise of government power, and the politician's principle that nations come ahead of people...
Harvard's Role in McCarthyism...
...hardly a woman who would take a trial meekly. She addressed the Massachusetts Commission in 1955 when McCarthyism slithered over the land and she remained undaunted. She replied that she was not acquainted with any so-called subversives but that...
Trilling, one of many unwavering opponents of both Communism and McCarthyism, objects to Hellman's 1976 memoir of the McCarthy era, Scoundrel Time, saying that it was widely but mistakenly received as a reliable record of the times and of the playwright's "virtually unique personal heroism in the midst of almost universal cowardice." A number of other critics, including Hilton Kramer, Irving Howe and Nathan Glazer, have also taxed Hellman with a variety of obfuscations and omissions in the historical record as well as in her own political life story...