Word: witchcraft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strong Breed delves into the dark and obscure realm of tribal taboos. Exorcism and witchcraft flicker along the edges of the action, but the convoluted flashbacks of a meandering plot never indicate exactly how and why. The core of the play concerns a teacher-stranger (Scott) who is out of sympathy with the annual tradition of a sacrificial human scapegoat known as a "carrier," but who lacks sufficient nerve and emancipation to fight the ancient tribal custom...
...Easily one of the most regrettably persistent myths in the contemporary world is the belief in the existence of "race"; a modern-day carry-over to an older belief in witchcraft-and the resultant feeling that measures must be taken to protect oneself from contamination. The sooner the public is made aware of the facts the better; your Essay was a step in the right direction...
Many colleges are receptive even to the specialized interests of a relatively small number of students. Thus Wesleyan's psychology department bowed to undergraduate requests for a course on "witchcraft and the occult." Among some 15 student-requested courses created at Stanford were seminars on "Ideology and Utopia" and "Anarchism and Fascism." The City College of New York is offering two courses on music of the Orient taught by Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar, and, for the first time, an interdepartmental major in oceanography. The Political Science Club at Northwestern secured academic credit for students to work in Springfield...
...three brothers is a love of Brazil, particularly the lush tropical flora of their native land, its vast resources and colorful peoples. Walter, who conducted the first performances in the U.S. of the work of his countryman Heitor Villa-Lobos, based his own Third Symphony on native macumba (witchcraft) themes. Haroldo glows over the beauty of his native tourmalines, topazes, rubies and garnets, shapes each gem in amoeba forms that follow the structure of the stone. Roberto is infatuated with the dense Brazilian foliage, with its leaves that can be mottled, snowy, blue, asymmetrical, metallic or blood-veined, textured...
...always keep the play's eloquence under control. Paul Glaser, as the hero crying to be hanged, is all forensic and fingerpointing, but often his gestures distract from his lines, and sometimes he loses the thread of the poetry in his forced jauntiness. Nancy McDoniel, the lady accused of witchcraft, smiles and enthuses as constantly as a Dickens heroine with never a trace of the wryness and mystery in her part...