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...Salem girls goaded the town authorities to action. On March 1, 1692, Tituba and two other rather disreputable women of the neighborhood were brought to trial as witches. Surprisingly enough, Tituba readily admitted her guilt and identified the other defendants as co-conspirators in a plot to bewitch the devout Puritan community. Apparently enjoying the limelight into which she had been so unexpectedly cast, she called upon her exotic imagination to supply the judges with new tales of mystery. She told of elaborate witches' convocations which she herself had attended and gave the astonished courtroom a complete description...
...Bristol Jr., a 3O-year-old Manhattan businessman, is a good example of a layman who works hard for Christianity without stumbling into either pitfall. He is a devout Episcopalian. As a licensed lay reader, a synod delegate and field worker for his church's New York diocese, he tries his best to gain more followers for what he calls "the sleeping giant" of U.S. religious bodies. As vice president of the Laymen's Movement for a Christian World, he tries to make Christian principles felt in various segments of public life, e.g., by helping...
Francois Mauriac's specialty consists in creating a handful of morally diseased characters and dragging them through a couple of hundred pages reeking of sin and sensuality. The French, including many devout Roman Catholics, have an unpleasant word to describe the distinguished Catholic author's novels. It is malsain-unhealthy. In The Mask of Innocence, a thoroughly unpleasant novel about thoroughly unpleasant people, Nobel Prizewinner Mauriac sets out to illustrate the doctrine that even moral leprosy can be cured by divine grace...
...breed that, according to preliminary tests, fattens with spectacular rapidity. At one time Broussard planned to buy an island off Alaska and keep the Charolais in quarantine there for a while. The Agriculture Department turned down the idea, but Broussard was not discouraged. He made an enticing offer to devout Henri Gilly, owner of the Mexican herd: if Gilly would sell him the cattle, Broussard would donate income from them to Christian charities. In June 1952, Gilly agreed, for $500,000. That left only the problem of getting the Charolais into...
...bright spring day in 1950, aglow with the look that once shone from Neapolitans headed for gold in the streets of New York, Pietro Merlino and Domenico Faticati left their Naples slum for a land of promise. But as they were devout Communists, this land was not the U.S., but Communist Hungary. They had no passports, but that did not matter; they had their party cards and all would be well. They would get jobs, send money to their hungry families (Merlino had eight children, Faticati four) and come home in two years with a brimful crock of gold...