Word: witch
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Cummings was one of nine students thrown out of Harvard and run out of Cambridge in 1920 for being gay or associating with gays. A top-secret body called “The Court” conducted the witch-hunt, and for decades the records of the tribunal were hidden in the bowels of the University Archives...
...their names from the files. After appeals for unredacted versions of the files were rejected by the administration, a team of researchers from The Crimson and I spent months uncovering the names of the students and sifting through other historical records to discover how the College’s witch hunt affected the lives of these...
...first act is where Abigail Williams is also introduced, the heroine, who unlike any of the women and men she accused of witchcraft, resembled a witch herself. Played by HLS student Kristy J. Greenberg, Abigail was a victim, a harlot and a vengeful witch all in one. Her performance was dazzling as her Abigail grew more brazen as her success as finger-pointer and actress of the court increased. Thrown to the ground by her supposed lover John Proctor, she only grew stronger and got her revenge, beginning with a devilish bell-like laugh...
...Bible is a manual for rape, genocide, and the destruction of families...Religion has given us stonings, witch burnings, crusades, Inquisitions, jihads, fatwas, suicide bombers...and mothers who drown their children in the river,” he said...
...time of miraculous regeneration—cue soft-focus images of fluffy bunnies and blooming bouquets—these delightfully wholesome tableaux seem conspicuously absent from the local environment. The stripped-bare foliage continues to bear more than a passing resemblance to the set of the Blair Witch Project (preponderance of red brick aside); deluded optimists who insist on wearing flip-flops outside end up with toes a distinctive shade of magenta by sunset; and carb-loaded comfort foods still retain that elusive yet maddening X-factor which renders piping hot pad thai an easy choice over macrobiotic vegetables...