Word: mccarthyism
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...plan." Hartig is at pains to distance himself from the resident bigots, but says, "People who don't like a closed community like Dubuque can go elsewhere." He complains that the only reason the plan has survived is because business leaders are afraid to oppose it. "It's like McCarthyism," he says. "If you don't support affirmative-action plans, then you're called a racist...
...young to have convincing ruins. Instead of admiring the tumbled stones of their former civilizations, Americans can only return to their memorable fiascoes, where they can weep and think of Ozymandias, king of kings. They can revisit Watergate and Vietnam, for example, or penetrate to the remoter pageants of McCarthyism or the stock-market crash of 1929. Poking around in the remnants of disaster can tell you where you have been and what you have been capable...
...generations, Americans have largely defined their country and, to some extent, themselves in terms of the cold war. From McCarthyism to backyard bomb shelters, from the arms race to the space race, from Alger Hiss to the Marine spy scandal -- whatever else might have changed, the cold war abided. Moreover, it all too often metastasized into an honest-to-goodness shooting war, as in Korea and Vietnam. Now, however, only the most troglodytic right- wingers refuse to acknowledge that a new era has dawned. Says former CIA Director Richard Helms: "Years ago, when I was at the agency, from time...
...self-policed. When Dingell asked the Secret Service to examine the notebooks in the Baltimore case for authenticity, some researchers accused him of launching a witch hunt and trying to establish "science police." Because of his badgering of scientists at congressional hearings, he has been charged with practicing McCarthyism. Says Maxine Singer, a molecular biologist and president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: "With Dingell, the issues get swallowed as he makes personal attacks on people...
...everyone is happy about his execution. Peggy Charren, founder and president of Action for Children's Television in Cambridge, Mass., says the issue has been overblown in the press and criticizes CBS's rush to judgment: "It begins to smack of McCarthyism, where people were being pulled off the air before they were convicted of anything." Perhaps the real crime, the one , for which Reubens has been so relentlessly pilloried, was the successful pretense of childishness. The kids always knew he was playing, but, evidently, not many adults did. Ordinary show-business thugs and malefactors can get away with...