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...Amelia Island, Fla.; and Ralph W. Zoller, 27, of Mantua, Ohio -were charged with felonies for the four deaths. If convicted, all could be sentenced from one year to life in prison. The other three defendants-Barry W. Morris, 29, of Kent; Mathew J. McManus, 28, of West Salem, Ohio; and Leon H. Smith, 27, of Bay City, Ohio-were charged with misdemeanors because there was no evidence that their bullets had struck the dead students. If found guilty, they each could get up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine...
...Andrews Sisters, Wonder has managed the considerable task of establishing himself as both a hot commercial property and an authentic voice. Being black, blind and up from poverty entitles him, of course, to say that he has been there and back. A near-fatal auto accident outside Winston-Salem, N.C., last August has threatened to turn saga into legend. Stevie was riding in the front seat of his car when a log tore loose from a truck, crashed through the windshield and struck him in the forehead. He was pried from the wreck bloody and unconscious...
Because it doesn't treat the trials as historical accidents with purely personal causes, Salem Possessed makes them weighty and comprehensible in a way traditional accounts cannot. It's the difference between a polemic about the Watergate scandals and a carefully written history of the Indochina war. Or between an attack on McCarthyism as the work of misguided fanatics and a reflective consideration of its roots in real conflicts between groups of people with genuinely conflicting interests. It's the difference between fairytale and history, melodrama and tragedy...
...CONFLICT WOULD have been simpler and less bitter if everyone in the changing society hadn't belonged, just a little, to both sides. Salem Possessed's poignant portrayal of Parris--whose attacks on moneygrubbing were in large part efforts to purge himself of a grievous and integral sin--demonstrates the ambivalence at the heart of Salem, and New England as a whole, and makes traditional, straightforward dichotomies between victims and accusers seem embarrassingly naive...
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