Word: mccarthyism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Laconic Anticlimax. Her moment of truth with HUAC forms the heart of this slim memoir, Hellman's first-and long-anticipated-public word on her brush with McCarthyism. Two earlier autobiographical volumes, An Unfinished Woman (1969) and Pentimento (1973), ignored this subject. Yet when the crucial scene in Scoundrel Time comes, it is a laconic anticlimax. The committee seems flummoxed by Hellman's strategy. When the chairman asks that her letter be read into the public record, Hellman's lawyers leap to distribute copies to the assembled reporters. Minutes later a voice is heard in the press...
...communism ultimately brought Herberg to religion and to William Buckley, should Buckley thank Stalin for doing God's work?" What difference does it make? In his concluding chapter, "Conservative Paradoxes", Diggins remarks that "In Nixon's heralded detente with Russia and China, one sees that a politician nurtured on McCarthyism can be anti-communist without being anti-totalitarian." Is Diggins saying that Russia and China are totalitarian but not Communist? That detente is an outgrowth of McCarthyism? That Nixon should be regarded as a serious conservative intellectual? The muddled logic and vague implications make it hard to follow Diggins' drift...
...press conference about the House committee's charges. He exploded, accusing the committee of misusing classified information "in a tendentious, misleading and totally irresponsible fashion [that] has already done damage to the foreign policy of the U.S." Kissinger charged the committee with practicing "a new version of McCarthyism" and called its report "a malicious...
...Watergate scandals, Publisher Katharine Graham warned reporters against a temptation to "see conspiracy and cover-up where they do not exist." Before a group of editors last month, A.P. General Manager Wes Gallagher denounced "this investigative binge." CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid feels that there is "a kind of McCarthyism" abroad: "Anybody who is hauled up and accused of anything is assumed guilty until proved innocent. This is a residue of Watergate...
...that has died down a bit, but even people considered conservative at Harvard, like Pusey, have fought for causes generally considered liberal, like anti-McCarthyism...