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Possession and Witchcraft in the late 16th Century--D.P.Walker, professor of the History of the Classical Tradition, University of London, Harvard...
...scenes between Ruth and Saul are unquestionably the most realistic and the most engrossing in the play. Barnes's Ruth shines in both her dimensions--suitably mysterious in her witchcraft, wise and shrewishly loving in her human relations. Whenever he faces serious trouble, Saul seeks out his mistress Ruth, who tartly reprimands him for selfishly taking and not giving, but helps him nevertheless. Ruth is the only character in the play who really understands Saul's limitations, and how unsuited he is for his role of king...
...aunt does several nice comic turns in the novel, once commiserating with her nephew on the curse of having been born an Aldrich: "That made you the inher itor of a long-established tradition of rascalry, thievery, sexual perversion, treason, sedition, blasphemy and apparently, in my case, gratuitous witchcraft." There are, preposterously, several Mohawk Indians involved in the plot, one of whom is named Sybaritic Hawk. Student demonstrations of the late '60s, ecological struggles, communes, civil rights trials, street life among urban porn establish ments, all have been dragged, entertainingly, into The Lady from Boston...
Although Fleetwood Mac has a troubled history, in the past its difficulties have all been occupational. Starting as a British blues band, its only claim to notoriety was guitarist Peter Green's authorship of Santana's hit "Black Magic Woman." Even an intimacy with witchcraft failed to spirit them to the top of Billboard, so they initiated a personnel change. Upon Green's departure, keyboard player Christine McVie joined the group, but while her marriage to bassist John McVie sailed smoothly, her betrothal to Fleetwood Mac did little to improve their fortunes. Once again the group shifted its roots, this...
Friday, three British poets, Patricia Beer, Adrian Henri and Pete Morgan, will give a reading in the Eliot House Library at 8 p.m., with free sherry and no admission charge. Saturday, Suzanne Hiatt will give a lecture at the Harvard Epworth Church on "Witchcraft and Misogyny,"--an odd topic to be speaking on in a church, perhaps, but de gustubus. 5:30 p.m.,!/ FOR SUPPER. Watch what...