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Soon alarming things began to happen in Salem Village. In the spring of 1692, many of the regular members of Tituba's audience developed pronounced symptoms of hysteria. Their actions can doubtless be easily explained by modern psychiatry. But to the Puritans of Salem, indeed to any seventeenth century man, these were puzzling and frightening phenomena. The most plausible explanation seemed to be that the children had been bewitched. After all, everyone know the power of the Devil and no one doubted the existence of witches. Does not the Bible say: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live...
...remainder of the program Miss Colish lost her inhibitions and played brilliantly. Five Romanian Folk Dance by Bartok, each a compact little bundle of emotion, received thoughtful, idiomatic performances. I especially liked Pe Loc, whose ceric and exceedingly difficult harmonics have doubtless been the undoing of many a lesser musician...
Offenbach," and of his amorous consolations. In ignoring the merry truth about Sullivan (who did nothing worse than lonesomeness will make an emotional bachelor do), the moviemakers were doubtless bent on getting their man past the modern censors. In his own time, Sullivan was approved by a rather stricter custodian of morals: Queen Victoria, who granted him a knighthood...
...approving Pusey's statement, The Pilot made it clear that this was no blanket endorsement: "Not every one to be sure will understand Dr. Pusey's words in the same sense; we ourselves doubtless will not share his views in the details of its programming or its total implementation at the Divinity School...
That was a far cry from $10 million. But Moody's backers included some who could doubtless raise that much or more. Most prominent: Mrs. Paul Hoffman, wife of the ex-ECAdministrator, now back at Studebaker, and Roger Stevens, Michigan real-estate potentate who engineered the $25 million purchase of Manhattan's Empire State Building (TIME, June 4, 1951). Others, such as Bernard Baruch's secretary, Miss Mary Boyle, and W. Averell Harriman's protege, Philip Stern, research director of the Democratic National Committee, were possibly stand-ins for bigger money. Detroit, which already has three...