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...Accommodation. Common folk still sought a king's touch as the cure for scrofula, still believed that the twitching of a hazel twig betrayed the nearness of criminals, still looked to omens and cabalistic signs as a guide to the future. The Swedish poet Georg Stiernhielm was accused of witchcraft for burning a peasant's beard with a magnifying glass, and witches would continue to stalk the lands of Europe for as long as King Louis lived (Durant reports that in Scotland the last one was sent to the stake in 1722). But at the same time, Hooke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Faltering Trajectory | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...Kong, the famed South African musical. To Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's regime, he was a key suspect in the clandestine operations of the anti-apartheid underground. Last month police descended on the artist's swank home in the Johannesburg suburb of Rivonia, arrested Goldreich, his wife Hazel, four other white men, and a dozen nonwhites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Escape Artists | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

...Hazel Levy, whom he divorced in 942 to marry Actress Betty Field; she divorced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Monotony Report | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

Sonate a Trois, based on Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit, was the only offering at Central Park that made demands on company and audience. Peter Cazalet, Hazel Merry and Sylvia Wellman danced their eternal season in hell with affecting desolation, though Choreographer Maurice Bejart's strained balletic invention at one point reduced them to peering dolefully through the symbolically barred backs of chairs. Returning to Jacob's Pillow, the company put on The Wedding Present, an emotionally charged dance drama with homosexual overtones, about the crackup of a marriage. A dance shocker, of a sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ballet: Dancers at Play | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

Psychiatry & Wolves. Hoping to catch some of the popularity slosh from NBC's Eleventh Hour and Hazel, ABC has a new 50-minute hour on psychiatry called Breaking Point, and NBC has hired Imogene Coca to play an itinerant maid named Grindl, who drops dishes in a different job each week. Other shows are not so imitative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: From the Same Tube | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

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