Word: witchcrafts
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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...
...himself surpassed it in Twelfth Night. It is undeniably true that Dream is an unusually eclectic work, drawing its material from Plautus, Plutarch, Ovid, Apuleius, Chaucer, French romance, Italian commedia dell'arte, a couple of earlier English plays, popular folklore, and even Scot's nonfiction treatise The Discoverie of Witchcraft. But Shakespeare worked everything up into a fresh plot of his own -- or, rather, a skillfully unified interlocking set of three plots -- involving four classes of people from supernatural beings down to manual laborers. And on this work he lavished lots of his loveliest language...
...reactions of the townspeople, falsely accused of witchcraft by Abigail, the depraved 18-year-old, closely parallel the response to the "Are you now or have you ever been...?" of the HUAC hearings. When, John Proctor, the play's hero, agrees to confess his own sins but refuses to "name names," he is repeating Lillian Hellman's stand before the Committee; The Crucible is a textbook of such reactions...