Word: witch-hunt
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...with his virtual banishment from American academia during World War II, when C.C.N.Y. reneged on its commitment to him because of his reputed permissive attitudes about sex. This Russell finds no laughing matter: "The Government of New York City was virtually a satellite of the Vatican. ... A typical American witch-hunt was instituted against me, and I became a taboo throughout the whole of the United States. ... If I had appeared anywhere in public, I should probably have been lynched by a Catholic mob, with the full approval of the police." Some of his later blatantly anti-American views perhaps...
...This is not an attempt to initiate a witch-hunt," Rep. Joseph M. Kearney (D.-Mattapan) averred yesterday as he testified in favor of a bill that would set up a conmmission to investigate "overt encouragement of civil disobedience by instructors at the University of Massa chusetts at Boston...
...make public requests for individual testimony. And if one fact has emerged clearly from the whole Dow debate, it is the continuing awareness at Harvard, and particularly among the Faculty, of the dangers of McCarthyism--from right or left. This awareness is the best possible protection against a witch-hunt in the University community...
...years in the early fifties. Then tenured professors thought long and hard before risking a statement on public issues; teaching fellows, fearful of antagonizing Governing Boards, were politically inert; and students retreated into silence and inactivity. It was a time of villains, not heroes; those who stood against the witch-hunt hysteria are little-remembered today...
...Times-Union took defensive note of the wave of anger that, in the first hours after Kennedy's death, seemed to focus on the far right. The assassination, said the Times-Union, "must not be allowed to become the cause célèbre for a witch-hunt against those who, for reasons of principle and honor, have chosen not to follow the line of those in power but who have acted out their part as a 'loyal opposition...