Word: witching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ginzburg, were charged with circulating underground publications. "I love my country," Ginzburg said, "and I do not wish to see its reputation damaged by the latest uncontrolled activities of the KGB." During the five-day trial, sympathizers gathered outside the courtroom. A letter to "world public opinion" condemning the "witch trials" as "a wild mockery of justice no better than the purge trials of the 1930s" was circulated by Mrs. Yuli Daniel and Pavel Litvinov, grandson of Stalin's Foreign Minister and one of the most daring of the dissidents. Shivering so badly in the January weather that her friends...
...banshee is a female Celtic spirit "a kind of half-witch," Mrs. Dunn explained to one student. The boy, a sophomore who was clearly a bit astounded by his first Sunday in a Harvard House, sighed and remarked, "It sure feels good to get rid of them...
That Certain Age. The rest of the cast is a ship of ghouls: a warlock, a 175-year-old witch (played by a nubile blonde), lab-made monsters whose ev ery part is a transplant, a ghost and an agent of the devil. One of the few nearnormal human beings is the matriarch of "Collinwood," the haunted manor that is the scene of the action. That role is filled by the show's top-billed star, former Film Actress Joan Bennett, 58, who says frankly: "You reach a certain age in Hollywood when there's a shortage...
...some Nigerian cities, for example, an estimated two-thirds of the population suffer from some form of mental illness?mostly anxiety. Unable to teach such people, a number of Western-trained psychiatrists have lately employed witch doctors to allay their demon-ridden patients' fears?and only then succeeded in treating them...
ROSEMARY'S BABY. Satan is alive and living at the Bramford, a haunted apartment house in Manhattan, where an ancient witch (Ruth Gordon) troubles a pregnant wife (Mia Farrow); both ladies are superb, thanks to the devilishly deft direction of Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water, Repulsion), who has a nifty horror hangup...