Word: mccarthyism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...open society. With all its shadowy accusations and logical pratfalls, the Administration must not be allowed to dupe the public into fearing Commies when it should fear abridgements of the rights of speech and knowledge. We wish Harvard every success in its ongoing fight against the Pentagon's new McCarthyism and support its right to publish whatever scientific and social truths it finds and to bring here whichever scholars it chooses...
Tribe last year asked Carrington in a letter if he meant "to endorse a rebirth...of [the] McCarthyism that stained the history of so many universities, and of the nation as a whole, several decades...
...John Kennedy "a pair of boots," explaining: "You can't say which is better, the left or the right." In private he had a different attitude. At a luncheon before his departure, he became angry at the mention of Nixon's name: "He's a typical product of McCarthyism, a puppet of the most reactionary circles in the U.S. We'll never be able to find a common language with him." He said that "we can influence the American presidential election." He related how he saw through the Americans when the Eisenhower Administration asked us to release U-2 Pilot...
...McCarthyism has risen to accompany the growth of Cold War II, incorporating the direct-hit military methods of the infamous COIN-TELPRO (Counter-Intelligence Program) with the ideological criteria of the last Cold...
...latest successful legal challenge to the new McCarthyism has gained support at the Law School, inspiring an open forum presentation by Wolkenstein which will occur later in February. Sandra Ruffin, President of the Black Law Students Association, wrote in support of the victory and called it "a structured outrage" that should "serve as a signpost, a warning of the dangers to freedom which still threaten...