Word: voodoos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...killed?" But most Haitians have resigned themselves to a numbing life under Duvalier. The dictator's 5,000-man Tonton Macoute roams the country ferreting out opposition and collecting "donations" from terrified businessmen. Even Duvalier's own henchmen live in mortal fear. Using Haiti's pervasive voodoo mysticism, Duvalier has set himself up as the pseudo religion's top practitioner, and fearsome tales that he performs ghoulish rites on severed vital organs of his enemies flutter like bats through Port-au-Prince...
...comings and goings. Its anticlerical theme seems partly inadvertent, for the characters show little shading: if the priest is merely obdurate, Ze is fanatic. The Given Word's strength lies in the vitality that pulses through an astringent morality play, filling it with the cries of pitchmen and voodoo women and street-corner poets, the hip-heaving dancers and gourd-rattling hipsters who almost make humanity look worth dying...
...illiteracy), it was a life sentence. Since he took office in 1957, Duvalier has ruthlessly liquidated every real or suspected foe of his regime. The 5,000-man Tonton Macoute, Duvalier's plain-clothes bully boys, shake down merchants and terrorize peasants, while his militiamen engage in macabre voodoo orgies, playing on the belief of the superstitious population that Papa Doc has occult powers. Haitian exiles, arriving in the Dominican Republic at the other end of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, say that the rites have included sewing up newborn babies inside sacrificial bulls. At the end of Duvalier...
...onetime student of voodoo, Zarur grew up memorizing the Bible and studying mysticism. In 1932 he drifted into radio as a writer and actor. In 1948, as the story goes, a medium brought him a message from St. Francis of Assisi: "The time for the mission has arrived." "What mission?" asked Zarur. "Read the book about him," said the medium, "and you will understand." Zarur went back to a book by St. Francis, and suddenly "I knew everything. All I had to do was begin...
Massachusetts seems to be trying everything to win today. They have made fierce statements, posed for fierce pictures, beaten Maine 14-7, slaughtered Colgate in a scrimmage, made fierce statements, exhorted alumni to root and pray, pushed pins into voodoo dolls, practiced inordinately hard, and made fierce statements...