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McCarthyism|məˈkɑːθɪɪz(ə)m|
[f. the name of Joseph R. McCarthy (1908–57), U.S. senator + -ism.]
The policy of hunting out (suspected) Communists and removing them from Government departments or other positions. Hence McˈCarthyist a., of or pertaining to McCarthyism; McˈCarthyite, one who gave support to such a policy; also attrib. and transf.
1950N.Y. Post 5 Apr. 44/1 To call McCarthyism a fascist atmosphere would be descriptive enough. 1951[see big lie (big a. B. 2)]. 1952N.Y. Times 26 Oct. i. 70/7 McCarthyism breeds fear, suspicion and unrest. It turns neighbor against neighbor and makes every American a suspected traitor until and unless he can prove his innocence by McCarthyite standards. 1952San Francisco Examiner 18 Sept. 3/6 The McCarthyites unquestionably have an appeal, Senator Lehman conceded, since they come before the people as super-patriots. 1953Ibid. 23 July 20/8 The editorial denounced a House committee investigation of Communistic clergymen... The ‘Daily Worker’ called it ‘the new McCarthyite drive against the integrity and independence of the church’. 1954Encounter Aug. 10/1 For the unlucky rest of us, McCarthy and McCarthyism—the proper noun and the common one—are familiar to excess. 1954Rorty & Decter McCarthy & Communists 118 They are not so much pro-McCarthyites as anti-anti-McCarthyites (opponents of all who oppose McCarthy). 1955H. Read Grass Roots of Art (rev. ed.) iv. 85 We are at once struck by the fact that whatever the political ideology may be—socialist, fascist, communist, or MacCarthyist—..all express one opinion about art. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Dec. 782/2 Has this book been written to add fuel to McCarthyist flames that have long been dying away in the United States? 1959Ibid. 6 Nov. p. xix/3 The whole academic community is only now emerging from the shock of the assault on the academies that was one of the most sinister results of ‘McCarthyism’. 196020th Cent. June 578 People who were not active McCarthyites..were none the less sources of strength for him. 1971Guardian 19 Jan. 10/2 Once people start..wondering about their neighbours, a McCarthyite infection could take hold. 1973Ibid. 18 June 4/4 A tradition of paranoia out of which grew McCarthyism and many earlier witch-hunts. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 6 July 765/1 The tendency is timeless—and by no means sinister or subversive even in McCarthyite terms. |