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...factions, friend and foe, are suffused by Pasternak with a profound pity, and their death is mourned. In one of the more fascinating passages, he introduces a village witch in Siberia who, even in the dawn of scientific socialism, clings to her visions. She prophesies: "Take your red banner. You think it's a flag, isn't that what you think? Well, it isn't a flag. It's the purple kerchief of the death woman...
Until now, Wohlforth stated, the American working class's lack of "class consciousness" has made its tremendous economic power ineffective. On the other hand, the witch hunt and post-war prosperity are both declining, he said, and even "conservative" American labor leaders have spoken of forming an American labor party...
...must now regroup the heroic people who withstood the witch hunt and unite them with labor," Wohlforth declared. "Then the American working class will, at last, be organized on the political level, and we socialists will be in our world...
...Visit. A rich witch offers to buy the life of a man who once wronged her -for a mere billion dollars. This surrealist, symbol-clogged but fascinating fable may be Alfred Lunt's and Lynn Fontanne's last visit to Broadway...
...Callas held her audience in a kind of hushed trance. Her tones were rock firm, aglow with a dozen nuances of passion, from hectic gaiety to quiet sadness. Callas scored an even bigger triumph in Cherubini's Medea. Whirling her heavy cape alternately like a regal robe, a witch's hood or a pair of bat wings, Callas managed a breath-taking range of emotion: she seemed to caress the air when pleading tenderly with Jason, then railed at him with fists clenched and her voice full of relentless fury, again sank to her knees with heart-breaking...