Word: witches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asking the Congress legislatively to reverse several important Court decisions in the field of internal security, the ABA has heralded a retreat to the witch-hunting days of the late Senator McCarthy. The reaction to this McCarthy aberration, as expressed in the liberalizing rulings of the Court, did not represent a violent move to an opposite aberration, but a reasoned return to established values of civil and individual liberty...
...Premier of Ubangi-Shari in French Equatorial Africa, which now bears the ambitious name of the Central African Republic. It is a land of which it is said that the majority live in the Stone Age, and the advanced people live in the Middle Ages. The son of a witch doctor who claimed to have eaten human flesh, Boganda became a Roman Catholic priest, was unfrocked after he went to Paris as a Deputy and married his French secretary. A prosperous coffee planter and shrewd politician who likes to spout Latin phrases, he once gained enormous prestige by announcing just...
...devil was abroad in Salem all right, but he was not in the witches. He was in the people who burned the witches." TIME [Jan.5] should know that no witch, wizard or warlock was burned in the Salem-New England madness. They were either imprisoned or hanged, with the exception of one man who was pressed to death...
...Chipmunk Song (The Chipmunks; Liberty). No escape from this one. Songwriter Ross (Witch Doctor) Bagdasarian's clamorous fable about a trio of quarreling, caroling chipmunks sold more records (an estimated 3,500,000) in a shorter time (five weeks) than any other disk in the past year and probably in recording history. The "chipmunks" are actually Bagdasarian's own voice recorded at varying speeds. Having screeched their way through Christmas at the top of the pop charts, the little beasts seem destined to meet the Easter bunny...
Miller's ideas were caught. The camera, moreover, has let some fresh air and country scenery into a drama that often seemed stuffy and stage-bound, and the actors-principally Yves Montand as the hero and Mylene Demongeot as the leading witch-seem to play with more freedom and expressiveness than the original cast did. But Sartre, like Miller, has failed to extricate the essential lesson, the inmost horror of the episode...