Word: witches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hears of new inner sanctums around Boston, the group is simply reading about spooks. Members have access to special Widener stacks, where they spend several days translating old German and Spanish writings. The manuscripts explain every phase of ghostdom--how to hold black mass, how to catch a witch, and how to kill your maiden aunt with a handful of pins and some tobasco sauce...
...youthful that maybe some people were as surprised as I to see a lady of some fifty-odd. She didn't even look like a poet. She had a quiet, pale face which looked as if maybe it was a little frightened by the large, black, sawed-off witch's cap she was wearing. There was appropriate white lace at her collar and cuffs...
...Lockup. Of Cary's novels, Herself Surprised, first issued in 1941, is the third to be published in the U.S. Each of these three shows him to advantage in a different vein. The Moonlight is a darkly limned, Hardyesque story of conflicting generations in modern England; The African Witch is an authentic description of life in an African town. Herself Surprised is written in what is probably Cary's most congenial mode: the humorous picaresque in which a roguish heroine recalls, with tongue-in-cheek moralizing, the dubious deeds of her past...
Harper's gets about 1,900 manuscripts a month, and reads them all. Some of the best stuff is unsolicited: Columbia Historian Henry Steele Commager's article on the witch-hunt mentality ("Who Is Loyal to America?") which 65,000 readers requested in reprint, came in the morning mail. Ex-Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson arrived in person with his headline-making article on "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb...
...Wrath (Carl Dreyer; Schaefer Associates) is a study of the struggle between good & evil, as waged among witches, priests and ordinary people of a 17th Century Danish town. It opens with the quietly horrifying interrogation, torture and burning alive of an old woman who has been denounced as a witch. The rest of this Danish-made picture examines, no less acutely, three souls in torment...