Word: witchcrafts
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President Henry has based his stand on commonly accepted standards of morality"; yet these standards are fuzzy, transient, often sick, and by no means commonly accepted. (Burning was, for centuries, a commonly accepted countermeasure for witchcraft.) The conflict of currently accepted standards with reality has led to a pandemic of neurosis and hypocrisy that is destroying our integrity as human beings...
...Hour of Great Mysteries (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Barbara Bel Geddes threads her way among assorted corpses in a story that mixes 20th century suburbia with 17th century witchcraft...
...Singer Jane Harvey, a girl who can put a promise in a pronoun, swings her way through some convincingly heart-frayed reveries on the loving game-Misty, Everything But You, Lover in the House. In more antic mood, she belts the bromides out of Sent for You Yesterday and Witchcraft...
...first troubles to arise from the fascination that College students have for flames and firefighting occurred during the controversial term of President Increase Mather in the late 1600's. An avid theologian, he burned a book on New England witchcraft at a public ceremony in the College Yard. Thus, it was a College President who started the custom of mass conflagrations in the Yard...
...soul. He is thus able to forestall his doom, so that he and the squire can wander through the ravaged countryside and closer to home as the game progresses. Along the way they encounter Medieval life in all its variety--from a young girl destined for the stake for witchcraft, to a family of simple traveling actors, significantly named Mary, Joseph, and their child, Michael (Hebrew for "like unto God"). They move among people who, except for the actors, are obsessed with the dread of death and try to escape their fears through cruelty, crime, self-torture, and superstition...