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STRATFORD, Conn.--There is considerable logic in the American Shakespeare Theatre's decision this summer to fevive Artnur Miller's play about the Salem witch trials, The Crucible. This is, after all, a year in which special attention is being given to our country's history. The choice might well have fallen on Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, which dramatizes incidents in the American Revolution; but the AST gave us that play six years ago. Furthermore, would it not be better to offer a work not only about America but by an American...
...special point about The Crucible however, is that Miller was using historical topicality as a means of making a statement about contemporary society. He was drawing a parallel between the religious witch-hunts of 1692 and the political witch-hunts of the decade following World War II. Both were disgraceful episodes in our history...
...newspaper and community which pride themselves on rationality and a strong sense of justice. The purpose of this piece is to lay the facts on the table so that the issues can be discussed in an atmosphere of reason, rather than one reminiscent of a self-righteous witch hunt...
...well-meaning but inept friends had been trying to suppress with cash payments since 1968 and, ultimately, with lies. Last week, as key members of his own party began deserting him, Thorpe quit as party chief, maintaining his innocence and blaming the whole affair on a "sustained witch hunt" against...
Animistic Universe. One of these truths concerns the duality of human response. A child's mother is usually perceived as benign and loving. But she may also be seen as arbitrary and punitive. In the tales, this harsher figure can be masked as a witch or wicked stepmother. The father, alternately protective and threatening, is usually cast in the role of giant or king. In these guises, the author believes, parents may be disliked and defeated without guilt or remorse...