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...Harvard, Pusey quietly defended those who found themselves in what he called McCarthy’s “furious irrationality.” “You can count on us here to continue to fight against the obscurantism now rife in our society as best we can,” he said. The Faculty praised Pusey for his “serene and quiet courage,” and the American Civil Liberties Union gave him an award...
Ultimately, Pusey was less afraid of McCarthy than he was of the mass conformity that the Red Scare encouraged. “What scared me,” he recalled years later, “was why the public was so scared about communism...
...presidency, Pusey saw patience and intellectual freedom as the keys to social advancement...
...Pusey is vested with the powers and privileges of the presidency in the Faculty Room of University Hall, before two hundred guests...
...Pusey calls the first large-scale press conference ever held in Massachusetts Hall for “freedom of inquiry” in response to McCarthy’s accusations that Harvard students are “open to indoctrination by communist professors...