Word: warlock
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...chieftains" still flows, and a group of MacAskival clansmen, who have made no "decadent concession to modern civilization." But by far the most fascinating character in the book is Logan's chief enemy, one Dr. Jackman, "the hypnotically evil man with the third eye," a kind of Marxist warlock...
...characters: Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an elegant but asthmatic London wine merchant, who is also the novel's narrator; his blonde wife Antonia; his black-haired mistress, Georgie; their joint analyst, Anderson Palmer, a smooth, prosperous Freudian who, despite a "big white American smile," is also something of a warlock and misleads both women from couch to bed; Palmer's sister, Dr. Honor Klein, a notable witch and anthropologist given to fingering a samurai sword while talking of herself as a severed head (see Freud on Medusa, a character hopefully prompts the reader). Lynch-Gibbon, a glutton for grief...
...movies shown to President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev the night of their arrival at Camp David have been identified. Pravda reports that Mr. K requested, and was shown, a film of the Nautilus' voyage under the polar icecap. The President requested, and was shown, a western called "Warlock." One of those present told the Times that the movies was "very long, very bloody, very dull." This reporter saw "Warlock," and concurs. (New York Times, 10/19/59...
...Warlock (20th Century-Fox) is a two-hour, $2,000,000 western with three major stars (Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn), two main heroes, two main villains, three main plots, five subplots, eight cooling corpses, and nine major outbreaks of violence. Hero No. 1 (Fonda), a sort of Good Bad Guy, is a notorious gunman who wears gold-handled Colts. The townspeople of Warlock ask him to protect them from Villain No. 1 (Tom Drake), a Bad Bad Guy with a slow sneer, a fast draw, and plenty of sneaking dry-gulchers on his payroll. Unfortunately, Hero...
...devil was abroad in Salem all right, but he was not in the witches. He was in the people who burned the witches." TIME [Jan.5] should know that no witch, wizard or warlock was burned in the Salem-New England madness. They were either imprisoned or hanged, with the exception of one man who was pressed to death...