Word: witching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moslem hospitals must be designed so that men and women can be strictly separated at all times. Projects are often delayed by revolutions, coups d'etat, bureaucracy and corruption. In Africa, the architects have had to abandon some carefully selected building sites at the last minute. Reason: local witch doctors considered them "bad juju...
...questioning over, Joan returns to her cell. A dungeon door groans shut. Englishmen's voices cry, "Death to the witch!" Alone, the girl lies motionless, staring; somewhere in the night a barking dog echoes her isolation. Then the interrogation resumes...
Meltless Memory. Before the broadcast, the children talk most of all about the Wicked Witch of the West-and when they do, they quiver. "I'm scared of the witch," said a five-year-old girl. By the time the hideous chick with the black eyebrows and the scimitar nose appears on the screen, three-year-olds will whinny, "Mommy, I'm scared," while barely articulate one-year-olds chant "Scared! Scared...
...fire from rooftops, skywriting ominously with a flaming broom, or saying: "Now, my beauties, something with poison in it. Heh! Heh! Heh!" Hearing that, one child remembered hopefully, if a bit inexactly, that "last year Dorothy and the Wizard poured hot water on her and she melted." The Wicked Witch will melt again this year, but not from the children's memory. Into bed they will crawl singing "Ding, dong, the Witch is dead," only to stop the melody and ask: "Is she really dead...
Before she started acting years ago, the broomless Miss Hamilton was a kindergarten teacher in Cleveland. Inspired by seeing Gertrude Lawrence, she gave up teaching and joined the Cleveland Playhouse rep company, where she was soon stirring away as the First Witch in Macbeth. That typed her, but dramatic witchcraft could not change her basic character. She not only went on to become the hag of the half-century, she also became a member of the Beverly Hills Board of Education, and a Cub Scout den mother. Now we will be able to shut off those lights...