Word: mccarthyism
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...know what I was missing, and began taking classes seriously, and began doing well,” Rosenthal says.Rosenthal was too busy uncovering political threats to academia to take advantage of his classes: he was the editor of a special section dedicated to exposing intellectual persecution during McCarthyism.“We liked to think then that by assembling these stories we were able to contribute to the ultimate sense of outrage that ended the witch hunts,” Rosenthal says. “I know that many of us were drawn to journalism for the thrill of public...
...role is an important one as a Kazan movie is inevitably seen in light of his decision to name names to the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC), the organ for official McCarthyism, particularly as Budd Schulberg, Kazan’s screenwriter on this picture and “On the Waterfront” also acted as a “friendly witness” against alleged Communists. The Matthau character shows the self-hatred at an inability to create a viable third...
...newly formed film company Participant Productions, got the script for Good Night, and Good Luck--about the showdown between heralded 1950s news anchor Edward R. Murrow and infamous communist witch hunter Joseph McCarthy--it had been turned down by every studio in Hollywood. "Once I started to learn about McCarthyism and about what Murrow did, the story struck me as very relevant to what's going on today with this Administration and things like the Patriot Act," says Canadian-born Skoll. Nonetheless, Skoll also passed on making the script, which George Clooney had originally cowritten as a four-part television...
Indeed, a new breed of McCarthyism now endangers the American academy. It threatens the free exchange and expression on which our education is founded. And though it may start by menacing the few, it will end up menacing...
...retrospect, we find that Harvard didn’t do as much to protect its junior faculty as they could have,” he says. “A few young faculty members were sacrificed on the altar of McCarthyism...