Word: witch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With seven minutes remaining in the half, the Quakers picked up the attack and, with the temperature dropping a degree a minute, came within a witch's eyelash of scoring...
...city council race virtually laden with colorful personalities, Denis Barber '60 has got to be the most controversial. Barber was embroiled earlier this year in what he calls a witch hunt, when the Cambridge Convention voted to un-endorse him after he came out against strict rent controls. Barber has stuck by his guns and asked that the rent control issue be less of a sacred cow, because he claims rent laws discourage landlords from maintaining property, contributing to the decline of Cambridge housing...
Singer's new production is aptly named. At 71, the author remains one of the least explicit but most sexually charged of modern writers. In Old Love, an ancient millionaire rediscovers his amatory instincts-only to have his young mistress plunge from a window. In The Witch, an ungainly schoolgirl enchants a repressed intellectual until at last he seizes her, "a witch drenched in blood and semen, a monster that the rising sun transformed into a beauty...
This documentary collage, currently on view at Washington, D.C.'s Ford's Theater, is at least as old as the Salem witch hunts. Author-Teacher-Critic Eric Bentley has arranged some of the testimony elicited from suspected Communists and fellow travelers by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the late '40s and early '50s. The witnesses are exclusively from the Hollywood and Broadway communities and include, among others, such figures as Larry Parks, Jose Ferrer, Abe Burrows, Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins, Lillian Hellman, Lionel Slander, Arthur Miller and Paul Robeson. (Bentley seems no less inclined...
...displayed as a reformist capitalist, and that made popular such books as The Affluent Society and the New Industrial State. Sample putdown: "Those who talk of money and teach about it and make their living by it gain prestige, esteem and pecuniary return, as does a doctor or a witch doctor, from cultivating the belief that they are in privileged association with the occult ... Though professionally rewarding and personally, profitable, this too is a well-established form of fraud...