Word: mccarthyism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minds of some scholars, he was a mediocre President, indifferent to the civil rights movement, spineless in the face of McCarthyism, slow of wit and out of touch with the currents of upheaval swirling beneath the calm surface of the 1950s. To more and more students of the era, however, Dwight David Eisenhower was a canny leader who brilliantly outmaneuvered subordinates and statesmen. Author and Biographer Stephen E. Ambrose can claim a seat in each camp...
...group accused of right-wing bias and "McCarthyism," the I.R.D. has some leaders with unexpectedly left-wing backgrounds. Founder Jessup joined the early Berkeley free-speech movement, and later the Peace Corps as well as black-voter-registration and labor-organizing campaigns. But even in his radical student days he was strongly antiCommunist. In 1980 he and his wife, in what became known as the Jessup Report, totaled up $442,000 in Methodist moneys aiding groups he judged to be Marxist or totalitarian, and sent the list to the denomination's financial overseers...
...School was then a center of political activism, particularly anti-McCarthyism, and as it became more important as a religious opinion and religious activism grew steadily. This year, a majority of the Div School's faculty proclaimed its support for the nuclear freeze movement in an advertisement circulated widely in national religious magazines...
...fellow academic trailblazers in China, he emerged unscathed. "My not getting mad at anyone, when others would, we doubt indicates some kind of weakness, but I prefer to ascribe it to self-confidence," he writes, explaining his own experiences with Congressional interrogation. He concludes. "The answer to McCarthyism in the case of China had to be education. My being publicly denounced over the 'loss of China' gave me an abiding commitment to educate the American public.... It was time to use knowledge and reason intend of violence and fear...
...hope you understand the seriousness of my complaint. The current rise of the "new McCarthyism" is already threatening many intellectuals and workers. I don't need anymore excuses from employers, schools or the police for that matter to harass me. Aaron Estis...