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Last week's weirdest newspaper story was an Associated Press dispatch from the small town of Woodbridge, N. J., 24 miles from Manhattan. The A. P.'s 1,350 members were informed by wire that one Theresa Czinkota had been publicly accused of witchcraft by five of her neighbors in the town's Hungarian section. In rich detail the A. P. told how spying neighbors described to a Police Recorder what they had seen through the windows of Mrs. Czinkota's home...
...will avoid the evil of attempting to teach her future social leaders what to think, instead of how to think. Throughout her history, Harvard has kept a unique record in encouraging independent thought. For an illustration of this, as early as 1692, look at the records of the Salem witchcraft frenzy. This was an event in which many prominent Harvard men were involved, but, characteristically, with entirely different points of view. William Stoughton, the chief prosecutor of the witch trials; Nathaniel Saltonstall, the judge who left the bench "rather than stain his hands with innocent blood"; John Hale, the most...
...found in the simple life, in disregard for riches, the secret that unlocked his creative genius Of Hawthorne, Mr. Brooks draws a bolder and darker portrait, seeing him as the link between New England and the Middle Ages. A great writer whose thoughts were always turning on tales of witchcraft and madness, Hawthorne had a genius which was always threatened by the quicksand of melancholy. He enchanted children with stories that could make adults shiver and his writing "clung to the mind like music." Cut off from the sources of his inspiration in old age, after his travels abroad, Hawthorne...
Author Gorer's social theory of mysticism is less convincing than his observation. He believes that there are certain manifestations that are inexplicable in terms of mechanistic or materialistic philosophy-the experience of mystics, "psychic phenomena," telepathy, African witchcraft. He explains these by suggesting that man is a sort of combined radio-phonograph, i. e., capable of making music with things or picking...
...Eraser, later a partner in the advertising agency of Blackman & Co. Given away by the million in grocery stores, these and later lyrics were sung by vaudeville troupes, dramatized for church and school entertainments, clinched Morgan's thesis on "How to Become Great" in the company's Witchcraft magazine in 1904: "Diligence, Perseverance, and Genius May Be of Some Help, but it is Ingenious Advertising that Tells in the Long...