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...Strasbourg, I was force fed . . . and I still can't unlearn to talk to a table or a squad of tables, addressing them correctly in Latin, saying: 'O tables . . .' It's about time the tables, O tables, were turned against this piece of scholastic witchcraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sic Transit? | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Down at Dunster House, the humanities have taken on an exotic cast this year. An expert on witchcraft has just filled the room left by a tall African named Selbourne Mvusi, who was billed as a "Zulu artist." Of genuine Zulu origin, Mvusi produces sombre, impressionistic oils and mournful woodcuts. He is studying art education at Penn State, at the suggestion of Professor Gordon All-port, who also invited him to Dunster House...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: "Zulu Artist" | 12/4/1958 | See Source »

...Ford grant guests--a Zulu artist and an authority on witchcraft--will visit Dunster House during the next two weeks, the House office announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Artist, Witchcraft Expert Will Visit Dunster House | 11/26/1958 | See Source »

Dunster's second guest, Dr. Rossell Hope Robbins, is an internationally known authority on medieval poetry and witchcraft. Sponsored by Albert B. Friedman, assistant professor of English, Robbins will spend four days in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Artist, Witchcraft Expert Will Visit Dunster House | 11/26/1958 | See Source »

After repeated assurances that his mark on the ballot would neither give his enemies a hold over him by witchcraft nor make his wives sterile, the clan leader thrust his spear shaft into the ground, strode into the mud-and-wattle hut and voted. Among the fertile coffee plantations on the lower slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, lounge-suited leaders of the progressive Chagga tribe queued up at polling stations alongside white planters in khaki shorts and Asian shopkeepers in dhotis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TANGANYIKA: Hymn to Bwana Julius | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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