Word: witchcraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Harvard was founded as a school for the ministry, its alumni almost immediately began their historic association with public policy issues. William Stoughton of the class of 1650 was chief justice and prosecuter at Salem witchcraft trials, and a number of other alumni were heavily involved in the trials, including one who was hanged for witch-craft...
President Increase Mather later held a ceremonial book burning in the Yard, expunging a book that discussed Cotton Mather's role in the witchcraft trials...
...Standing on the Corner, Big D and Don 't Cry. The evening's choicest prize is the marvel of the human voice - unamplified. Opera star Tozzi sings with the richness of burnished bronze and Daniels complements him with her pellucid soprano. They and their colleagues practice vocal witchcraft. -T.E.K...
...connection between aggression, sex, and religion. Each blow of that long, hard stake into the writhing female vampire's bosom practically reverberates with church bells. Perhaps unintentionally, these movies make it easy to see how poor, repressed Puritans could have burned men and women at the stake for witchcraft. Chances are, we would have done the same...
...jobs. According to some wall posters, unemployment had forced girls into prostitution and turned men to become beggars and thieves. The Hunan Daily thundered against "pickpockets, vagabonds and criminals," and reported that five party officials had been fired for staging "wild parties." A Nanjing (Nanking) newspaper told of a witchcraft murder and a resurgence of fortunetelling and divination...