Word: witching
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...Hayes Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. I don't know why there was a question mark in Klein's title phrase "America Divided?" I have been around since the Franklin Roosevelt Administration and have never seen anything like the division in the U.S. today. The public reaction to the Joe McCarthy witch hunts in the 1950s, the 1954 court decision on separate-but-equal schooling, the 1964 civil rights legislation and the 1974 Watergate affair did not exhibit the deep schisms apparent in the U.S. today. The divisions are the worst since the Civil War. Ralph Craig Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S. After reading...
...best thing about the mullah- lifting was that it clarified for Norwegians what their freedoms really are, what values they have," Rehman says. She's keenly aware of the threat she represents to conservative Islam, in Norway and throughout Europe. "Yes, I am dangerous," she admits. "I'm a witch, but I'm a nice witch...
...fabulous social-baritone voice, co-hosted the show with Hugh Downs. They interviewed guests ranging from Jerry Lewis to Helen Keller to Judge Joseph N. Welch, the Army?s attorney in the Army-McCarthy hearings that ended Joe McCarthy?s four-year run as the Capital?s chief witch-hunter. ?We were an educational program,? Francis said later, ?and the one it educated most...
...Screen Actors Guild (SAG) from 1947 to 1952. He negotiated the first contract that gave actors royalties for films but not for television work (a boon to his old friend Wasserman, who would run the largest TV production company). He also applied grease to the wheels of the anticommunist witch hunt. Reagan had been reflexively left-wing in the '30s and '40s. Edmund Morris, his authorized biographer, believes the story that Reagan had tried to join the Communist Party but was rejected on the grounds that he would be more valuable as a fellow traveler (a rumor Reagan blithely denied...
...pieces time is always present; time, the politics, the fears. So there is a change in tone from earlier pieces. It's very calm, very concentrated on movement. You need calm at times like this." Calm is a new word for Bausch, 63, who was once dubbed the "wicked witch of German dance" for snubbing classics like The Nutcracker. Along with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham , she is one of the giants of modern dance. Having done away with formal balletic movements, she helped pioneer "dance-theater," a genre which fuses dance with bits of dialogue and song. Like real...