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...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...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: A Year of Curriculum Change | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Fairbank's China Syndrome | 4/20/1982 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Misquoted | 4/28/1981 | See Source »

...often display coat hangers-grim reminders of the illegal and unsafe abortions to which women would have to resort if the court's ruling were superseded. Says Planned Parenthood President Faye Wattleton: "The fundamental principles of individual privacy are under the most serious assault since the days of McCarthyism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle over Abortion | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...Film Institute of the United Kingdom and its hapless representative, Joe Veriato, takes a long satirical swipe at the movie industry, with a representative collection of fools: Mickey Boorman and Pat Sligo, two pot-smoking "New Wave" filmmakers from L.A.; Carl Dorf, a self-exiled victim of McCarthyism; Dan Rashur, the wunderkind director with the Colgate smile; Sy Joelmersbagger, a tweedy history professor from Yale; and Sir Flute Parsons, an over-the-hill British screenwriter with a fondness for money and American boys. Wood gives each one his brief theatrical moment and tries to build...

Author: By Jonathon B. Propp, | Title: Myths, Movies and Men | 1/28/1981 | See Source »

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