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Throughout the cold war the American right defined itself, its opponents, the national purpose and the life of the planet in terms of the Great Other, the global menace centered in Moscow. The McCarthyite witch-hunts of the 1950s grew out of a wildly unrealistic fear that the reds could take over the country. In the early '60s, many Western experts were slow to recognize the Sino-Soviet split because it contradicted their belief in a monolithic enemy. In the '70s, conservatives argued that leftist tyrannies were ascendant in the world and impervious to the kind of internal reform...
...world's leading biologists, signed his name over a co- author's research that federal investigators later determined was faked. His mistake might have been forgiven, but not his prideful refusal to re- examine the data. Instead he belittled the whistle-blowers and decried the government's "witch-hunt." The controversy helped bring about his resignation as president of Rockefeller University...
...CRUCIBLE. Tony Randall launches his National Actors Theater on Broadway with an all-star revival of Arthur Miller's gem about the Salem witch trials, featuring Martin Sheen, Fritz Weaver and Michael York...
...believe that hard work, a positive attitude and performance ought to be the basis of professional rewards at the Globe and elsewhere," Howe said in a letter of apology written November 27 after newspaper officials went on what he called "a witch hunt" to find the leaker...
Beauty and the Beast, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, is more imposing, close to seamless. Its animators' pens are wands; their movement enchants. Enchantment is at the heart of the story too. A selfish prince (voiced by Robby Benson) lives under the curse of a righteous witch: that he be a beast, confined to his castle, until he can love and be loved. Pretty Belle (Paige O'Hara) will be his cure -- if she can shake off her revulsion at % being his prisoner and shiver out of the clutches of Gaston (Richard White), a way-too-handsome galoot...