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Grimly, Nehru struggled to get the balky delegates back under control. He arranged gatherings and dinners for selected delegates to meet Chou. His chief foreign adviser, Krishna Menon, acted as a kind of floor manager for Chou. Gaunt and spectral in his flowing white robes, Menon swooped from delegate to delegate like a chicken hawk over a smorgasbord, crying: "Isn't he a wonderful man?" But the delegates refused to be herded...
...doubts began to grow. The earliest sign of his increasing distrust of the trial procedures came in the middle of June when, with several other ministers, he responded to a request for advice from the judges. The group of ministers suggested that the courts evaluate carefully the so-called "spectral evidence"--that given by the afflicted girls of Salem; no one was quite ready yet to dispute directly the testimony of the girls, but their conduct was now an object of suspicion. On August 1, the Cambridge Ministerial Association, of which Mather was the most prominent member...
...read a long and scholarly paper, later published under the awesome title of Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits. At last his views had crystallized and he was determined to speak out. While still professing to believe in the possibility of witchcraft, Mather explicitly denounced the use of spectral evidence. And while emphasizing his great respect for the court, he cast doubt on many of the other tests the trial judges had accepted as proof. In an eloquent and memorable passage, Mather said: "It is better that ten suspected witches should escape than that one innocent Person should be Condemned...
...horrors of a Penny-dreadful--fog, train whistles, echoing voices, mist shrouded waters--and it all seems too heavy for the stories to bear. The worst sufferer is a drab little fable with the moral the Beauty Lies in the Heart. With the aid of a spectral Samaritan, Dorothy Fields proves the point by shedding the bags under her eyes when she learns the meaning of love. Duvivier makes the whole thing pretty intense, with the actors expressing utter banalities with deadly seriousness. When the embittered hero, for example, declares: "I wanted to be President!" he sounds as determined...
ANTONIO Music (rhymes with do stitch), 43, who was almost unknown until a Paris show last year set critics cheering. Brought up on an island off Dalmatia's coast, where "everyone has his own donkey," Music paints spectral quadrupeds and hilly landscapes in dusty roses, blues and ochers, almost as if he sees them through a sandstorm. Music was a more realistic painter when the Nazis arrested him in 1943 as a partisan sympathizer, later sent him to Dachau. Says he: "Perhaps the ugly things of the concentration camp have brought me toward poetry. There is more mystery...