Word: mccarthyism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Red-baiting tactic was unearthed last week, Metzenbaum denounced it as "lies, innuendos, McCarthyism and stupidity." A red-faced Rudy Boschwitz, the Minnesota Republican who chairs the G.O.P. senatorial committee, apologized for the "insulting and outrageous" smear...
...example Trumpbour says that during the 350th celebration there were many speeches praising Harvard's dedication to liberty and free speech over the centuries, and one speaker stressed Harvard's role in fighting the McCarthyism in the 1950s...
...modern day McCarthyism," said Professor of Law Gerald Frug, who supported Trubek's appointment...
...deal with racism is not to engage in this sort of obscene form of racial McCarthyism, but to acknowledge a real problem that we all must try to deal with. Name-calling, character assassination, and tying partisan politics up with issues that are fundamentally more important only degrade the effort to combat racial bigotry. By feeding these divisive fires, Boyd's cartoon only makes the problem worse. Christopher A. Ford...
...next cycle turned on the Great Depression, the New Deal and World War II, followed by the backlash of McCarthyism and the era of relative calm and prosperity during the 1950s and early '60s. Then the real '60s: turbulence, crisis, war, the rhetoric of revolution...