Word: unamericanism
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...Okinawa and the rest of the Ryukyu chain back some day, reaction was sharp. "Utter contempt for voters' rights," said Asahi Shimbun. "The prestige of American administration on Okinawa has reached an alltime low in Japanese eyes," said the Japan Times. Summed up one Japanese: "It is unAmerican, and counter to the democratic principles the Americans have taught...
CENSORSHIP. "The Legion of Decency and the National Office for Decent Literature ... do not regard themselves as 'censors.' They do, however, publish moral appraisals of movies and books. As a result, they are looked upon by Protestants as 'unAmerican pressure groups,' or as symbols of the intolerance of Catholics. [But the Legion addresses] its directives only to Catholics. Protestants are just as concerned as Catholics are to protect their youngsters from suggestive and defiling influences. The trouble is that some Protestants seem to feel themselves almost obliged to patronize the movie which the Catholics condemned-just...
...impulsively bussed Arthur Miller, who husked: "It couldn't be better. We are married, and now the world can go back to what it was doing." At week's end, Playwright Miller had six more days in which to name his onetime Red associates for the House UnAmerican Activities Committee or risk not getting a passport for an English honeymoon with Marilyn. Optimistically, he had already leased a sumptuous love nest in London's suburbs...
...boys, taken as a group, are not as advanced educationally and because of the disparity that exists between the races in the area of health, morality and culture." The Rev. Claude J. Stallworth, principal of the school, promptly condemned the resolution as representative of "a movement which is as unAmerican, un-Catholic and un-Christian as Nazism, Fascism, Ku Klux Klanism or Communism." And besides, he said, he knew of no plans to integrate Jesuit High...
...metal are alien to American monumental design-even to European." Picking up his lead, spokesmen for pressure groups, including the Allied Masonry Council, representing brick, limestone and marble companies and for the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers' International Union of America, charged that the modern academy design was unAmerican, un-Christian and unaesthetic...