Word: witchhunts
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...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...
...talk. With the government's perversion of basic rights through indiscriminate use of the grand jury system, it seems only just that members of the academic community should refuse to collaborate; Ellsberg is certain not to receive fair treatment from Washington, and widespread opposition to the government's witchhunt is the only way to redress the balance...
...talk. With the government's perversion of basic rights through indiscriminate use of the grand jury system, it seems only just that members of the academic community should refuse to collaborate; Ellsberg is certain not to receive fair treatment from Washington, and widespread opposition to the government's witchhunt is the only way to redress the balance...