Word: witching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ellison, however, denied that there was a "witch hunt" in the wing...
Archaeology Department Chair Peter T. Ellison denied yesterday that there is a "witch hunt" in the archaeology wing of his department to identify women who have alleged sexual harassment by a professor there...
Furthermore, Knowles should put a stop to the witch-hunt atmosphere that currently pervades the archaeology wing. That witch-hunt to identify and presumably punish van der Merwe's accusers, is--almost unbelievably--acknowledged by the senior professors conducting it. As Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky told The Crimson, "People here have done a lot of work figuring out who has spoken to you. We know who is talking...
Even more, the case fits into an almost satisfyingly easy moral mold; the dissipative Harding, the embittered loser in the last Olympiad, and the exalted Kerrigan, the winner, could just as easily be the Wicked Witch and Snow White. The public's fascination with the case is not unlike the rapt attention that little children pay to morally simplistic fairy tales...
Mitchell described how Mc-Carthyism of the1950s strongly re-sembled "witch crazes" ofearlier centuries...