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McCarthyism
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McCarthyism
from U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy who acted out morbid fear of aliens, especially Communists. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 409]


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While it may be something of an exaggeration to say that the situation is worse today than it was during the McCarthy era, there is, nonetheless, a strong undercurrent of anxiety within the nation's colleges and universities, a sense that the most basic values of American higher education are under attack and that the academic community is hard pressed to defend them.
159) similar to communists in the McCarthy era, government "coercion" (J.
Now in a second revised edition, The Girl is a novel by fiery female writer Meridel le Sueur (1900-1996), who survived a blacklist during the McCarthy era of the 1950s and a rediscovery of her work in the 1970s.
 
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