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...narrator; his blonde wife Antonia; his black-haired mistress, Georgie; their joint analyst, Anderson Palmer, a smooth, prosperous Freudian who, despite a "big white American smile," is also something of a warlock and misleads both women from couch to bed; Palmer's sister, Dr. Honor Klein, a notable witch and anthropologist given to fingering a samurai sword while talking of herself as a severed head (see Freud on Medusa, a character hopefully prompts the reader). Lynch-Gibbon, a glutton for grief, is, of course, transfixed by this menacing Gorgon. By what black psychological thimbleriggery their union is achieved-despite...
...calls her new philosophy, are sufficiently tame; it is only when she builds on these and divides all men into two pat categories--those who fear and those who accept reality--that her system becomes interesting. Of the "fearing" man Miss Rand's two archetypes are Attila and the Witch Doctor: "the man of muscle and the man of feelings, both seeking to exist without mind." Against these symbols of faith-and-force she pits the Producer: "any man who works, and knows what he's doing...
Illegal Short Cut. The indignities mount. Mukasa's long-sought aunt, the twin sister of his dead mother, proves to be a filthy, half-mad old woman who has been driven from the tribe as a witch. To save her wretched life, McNair risks taking an illegal short cut through the Belgian Congo. They are swiftly arrested. McNair, as a white man, is quartered with the Belgian officers, but Mukasa gets slapped around by the hard-eyed police and thrown into a jail crammed with demented African cultists. Engineering an escape, McNair brings them all to a greater doom...
...affirmative team questioned the HUAC's legislative functions and accused it of creating panic and confusion, of causing innocent witnesses to lose their jobs, and of encouraging witch-hunting...
...return students' exams to them. This, fortunately, can be remedied simply: the Faculty should vote that all those who give examinations must return blue books to any students who want them, by mail for May exams, if necessary. The only professors disturbed by this change will be those amateur witch-doctors who burn the blue books from their courses as a symbolic destruction of their students...