Word: witchhunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...symbols of Salem can be seen in at least two ways. Having faced down the witchhunt in Boston of recent sniping by Jackson, Bayh and Udall, Carter was going to show his lack of fear at the site of the witchcraft trials...
...Deal Democrat. In 1952 he moved up, bucking the Eisenhower landslide to win election to the Senate over conservative Republican Incumbent Harry Cam. In the Senate, Jackson was soon enlisted in the Democratic campaign to bring down Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and end his witchhunt for subversives in Government. Among other things, Jackson asked a series of ironic questions during the Army-McCarthy hearings that helped reduce the Wisconsin Senator to an object of ridicule. The strain of those hearings led to an attack of fibromyositis, an extremely painful, body-wide muscular cramp that Jackson likens...
...Take the coverage of Watergate for example," he said. "Is Senator Proxmire right that the press is on a McCarthyite witchhunt? A year ago I wouldn't have thought twice about...
...LUNATICS are running the asylum these days, and lunacy is its own reward, sanity the only true crime. In Only Victims Robert Vaughn has compiled a history of the oldest permanent floating pogrom in America--the show business witchhunt...
Only Victims does have a use, but only a limited one. The catalogue of national hysteria it provides will raise anybody's blood pressure a few points, and, for the unitiated, it is a reasonably painless annotated introduction to the theory and practice of the witchhunt. But it is not what it could have been, and this country is still in need of a good, readable compact history of one of the greatest blots on the American dream...