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...vaudeville song-and-dance routines right down to their knees for the supplest satire in the show. But Superman's chief foe is a mad scientist and perennial Nobel Prize dropout: "I've bought ten tickets to Stockholm." Played by Michael O'Sullivan in his best witch-minus-broomstick style, the scientist seeks revenge by attempting to destroy the symbol of goodness in Metropolis. He brain-shrinks Superman (a difficult feat) with the suggestion that being rocketed out from the exploding planet Krypton as a child has left him with a rejection trauma that demands the compensatory...
Susan Channing manages to manipulate the audience's hysterics as Cecily, while at the same time remaining carefully within the confines of her role. Sheila Hart looks and acts like Margaret Hamilton as the wicked witch of the East in Wizard of Oz. She fills her governess outfit beautifully...
...wants women "to be people" and shed their "housewife mentality," but she herself is obsessed with tiresome questions of "womanliness," "fulfillment," and political power for women. She says, with some pride, that she's been "a witch of Salem for four years, since my book came out. People are still cutting me up." She conducts casual conversations like fact-finding sessions. Drinking tea with the women law students, she quizzed them, not about interests in law or their work for the Legal Defenders, but how they "managed law school and marriage." She told them she wanted to meet Charles Morgan...
...charge still might have stuck had two officials not stood up for the accused teachers and the paper. Colorado's governor John Love said he deplored the teach-ins, but wondered whether "the possibility of a witch hunt" wasn't a greater danger. CU's President, Joseph Smiley, fired off a letter to Dodd demanding proof or a retraction...
...protestors maintain, the demonstrations are meant to be more than an outlet for individual indignation, they are falling. Instead of mobilizing popular support-against U.S. policy and causing it to change, they are only stimulating a McCarthy-like witch hunt and alienating the vast majority of the American people...