Word: witching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wants women "to be people" and shed their "housewife mentality," but she herself is obsessed with tiresome questions of "womanliness," "fulfillment," and political power for women. She says, with some pride, that she's been "a witch of Salem for four years, since my book came out. People are still cutting me up." She conducts casual conversations like fact-finding sessions. Drinking tea with the women law students, she quizzed them, not about interests in law or their work for the Legal Defenders, but how they "managed law school and marriage." She told them she wanted to meet Charles Morgan...
...charge still might have stuck had two officials not stood up for the accused teachers and the paper. Colorado's governor John Love said he deplored the teach-ins, but wondered whether "the possibility of a witch hunt" wasn't a greater danger. CU's President, Joseph Smiley, fired off a letter to Dodd demanding proof or a retraction...
...protestors maintain, the demonstrations are meant to be more than an outlet for individual indignation, they are falling. Instead of mobilizing popular support-against U.S. policy and causing it to change, they are only stimulating a McCarthy-like witch hunt and alienating the vast majority of the American people...
...dialogue modern and even Soc Relish. Detailed arguments in the book often reappear contained in conversational sentences. For example, Huxley insists that men searching for evil do so from a sense of their own sinfulness. When the Archbishop in the play puts a temporary halt to Grandier's witch-trial and the chief exorcist complains that "the Archbishop has made evil impossible in this place," Whiting uncannily reveals the prosecutor's unconscious guilt...
Aldous Huxley meant his study of an historical incident to be both an abstraction of the witch-trial mentality and a critique of the McCarthy hearings. Whiting thankfully preserves the abstract quality even when tempted by the theatrical. On the night before his death, Huxley's Grandier instantly calms his fear when his older colleague assures him that "God is here." The playwright, however, foregoes the sudden conversion and instead has Grandier change slowly through the last...