Word: mccarthyism
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...role: handsome-ordinary and lightly fretful. He and an over-the-hill gang of character actors (especially Landau, who does winsome as well as any 70-year-old) ground their fable in Golden Age geniality. But the story has to carry way too much weight, as war remorse battles McCarthyism. The Majestic's makers don't get what made Capra movies invigorating: a ferocious pace and the realization that even the nicest townsfolk have weaknesses and venalities. But that would complicate this all-too-simple tale of American madness, gladness and sadness...
...strong opponent of McCarthyism, Pusey is credited with upholding Harvard’s dedication to academic freedom in the face of blacklists and allegations of treason...
...strong opponent of McCarthyism, Pusey is credited with upholding Harvard’s dedication to academic freedom in the face of blacklists and allegations of treason...
...opted for tactics so beloved among conservative ideologues: when losing the struggle for public sentiment on issues of social justice and moral responsibility in the “free market” of ideas, what better way to stop the fight for a while than to invoke charges of McCarthyism against those who disagree with...
DIED. HERBERT BLOCK, 91, ferociously nonconformist Washington Post cartoonist known as Herblock who illuminated issues from McCarthyism to campaign fund raising and skewered 13 Presidents; of pneumonia; in Washington. Block won three Pulitzer Prizes and shared a fourth. His images, which included one of Jimmy Carter trying unhappily to get a clear picture of himself on TV, could be withering. Block proudly recalled a Post publisher saying his work prompted Nixon to cancel his subscription four times. In 1994 Block received the Medal of Freedom. His last cartoon, at left...