Word: mccarthyistic
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...from immune to McCarthyist Red-baiting, Harvard urged both avowed and suspected Communist Party affiliates to report on their colleagues. Those who failed to "name names" suffered career setbacks and were threatened with tenure denial or grant revocation...
...from immune to McCarthyist Red-baiting,Harvard urged both avowed and suspected CommunistParty affiliates to report on their colleagues.Those who failed to "name names" suffered careersetbacks and were threatened with tenure denial orgrant revocation...
Growing up during the McCarthyist years, Rzewski developed an early loathing for capitalist society that continued to define his political views for years to come. In the '60s and '70s Rzewski's Marxism was so fundamental to him that he hardly wrote a piece without a populist affirmation of some kind. And having early in his career sensed an incompatibility between his political views and any austerity of style, Rzewski gradually adopted a quasi-19th-century romantic idiom with the intention "to establish communication [with], rather than to alienate an audience." His most famous work is a brilliant hour-long...
Over the years, there have been repeated efforts to invest the U.S. government with the cachet of divine authority. "In God We Trust" was first stamped on currency in the 1860s. "Under God" was inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance during the McCarthyist 1950s. George Bush campaigned in 1988 to have the flag treated like a sacred object. And perhaps every revolution is doomed to be betrayed, sooner or later, by its progeny. It only adds insult to + injury, though, when the betrayal is dressed up in the guise of "traditional values...
Lawrence's comparison is dubious and dangerous. Equating classroom and newspaper is like equating the process of debate with its product. Commentators and politicians have made a case against AIA's methods by arguing from the liberal perspective that sees the organization as a right-wing group that uses McCarthyist methods...