Word: witches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Roland Reynolds, outgoing editor of the Review, said he is "glad that the president recognized the gross unfairness of the first hearing. But I hope this second hearing won't be used as a sort of witch hunt...
...sometimes the narcotics experimenting can result in some peculiar side effects for some participants. "The tests so far seem to be conducted in a mature, business-like fashion by responsible, competent people, not witch doctors," says another paid subject. "When I lost my memory and couldn't remember what I ate for dinner, they were more interested than anything else. But they had warned us before about possible side effects. Still, I was more out of control than I have ever been...
...miniaturist a little too long on charm and short on substance. It is true that big ideas seldom engaged him unless they could be broken down into parts that made clear and common sense. His response to the hue and cry for loyalty oaths during the Communist witch hunts in the early 1950s was typical. He ignored ideology and compressed the body politic into a single form: "If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going...
...Winthrop never flew away, the Leverett Tower was still standing, and no one spotted the Wicked Witch pedaling at 10,000 feet. Saturday came; the Sun was out, Harvard beat U.Mass, and Gloria was gone...
Today Fundamentalists and Evangelicals share very similar beliefs and values. But the Evangelicals tolerate a somewhat broader range of Bible interpretation and cultural outlook, and tend to be against doctrinal witch- hunts. The gut difference is a matter more of attitude than of theology. In Historian Marsden's tongue-in-cheek but perceptive definition, "a Fundamentalist is an Evangelical who is angry about something...