Word: mccarthyism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This policy meant a dead-end for Princeton Lecturer in History Ellen W. Schrecker, who tried for several years to obtain Harvard documents from the 1950s. Published several months ago, Schrecker's book, "No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities," has renewed the battle between scholars and universities over access to archival material...
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...Fifties was at least as rotten as any other decade, what with McCarthyism, segregation, the Cold War, the universal conservatism and intolerance. But modern Fifties nostalgia, generated by people who were children back then, is a peculiar kind of tunnel vision that never notices such nastiness. America was complacent and happy, a superpower without a rival in any sphere, and the meaning of life could be easily fit into a popular song with room for doo-wops and a chorus. What a time it was. No wonder we can't seem to get enough...
...front runner, Julian Bond, Lewis challenged his opponent to on-the-spot urinalysis. "We can go outside and go to the men's room and take the test right now," said he. Bond refused, as he had before, saying, "I think true leadership is to resist this demagoguery, this McCarthyism." Lewis won a narrow upset, and doubts about Bond's commitment to the antidrug crusade may have been a small factor...
...prompted him to accept a cameo role as a doctor in Woody Allen's forthcoming film Hannah and Her Sisters. Truth to tell, the movie appearance was set up by Schmidt's third wife, Helen Cutting Whitney, producer and director of ABC and PBS documentaries on such topics as McCarthyism and homosexuality, and co-author, with Eugenia Zuckerman, of a feature-film script titled K.589...