Word: witchingly
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...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...
Cummings was one of nine students thrown out of Harvard and run out of Cambridge in 1920 for being gay or associating with gays. A top-secret body called “The Court” conducted the witch-hunt, and for decades the records of the tribunal were hidden in the bowels of the University Archives...
...their names from the files. After appeals for unredacted versions of the files were rejected by the administration, a team of researchers from The Crimson and I spent months uncovering the names of the students and sifting through other historical records to discover how the College’s witch hunt affected the lives of these...