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...voices is particularly good, but none is bad. Most of the acting is quite adequate. Edith Adams and Peter Palmer fill the leads pleasantly, while Howard St. John's Bullmoose and Stubby Kaye's Marryin' Sam are amusing and refreshing. Although she shows traces of Ethel Merman and a witch from Macbeth, Charlotte Ray proves a good choice for Mammy Yokum. Pappy's role is properly squeaked by J. E. Marks...
...modern U.S. usage a witch is either a liberal's term for the quarry of a Congressman or a ladylike term for an untamed shrew; oldtime witches seem to have disappeared. Not so in the eyes of Jungian psychologists, to many of whom the whole world of demons, myth and fable is every bit as vivid as it is to poets and children. For Jungians believe that certain kinds of myths are repeated over and over again in all eras and societies, thus furnishing clues to the universal unconscious, just as an individual's dreams may give clues...
...everybody, including the analyst. What set them apart, according to Stein, is a "changeable, nebulous, ambiguous, enigmatic attitude [and an] alluring charm sharply contrasting with their sarcastic, cruel reasonableness . . ." They projected "a vivid image of the evil temptress, from whom it is no far cry to the 'witch...
Charming Yet Tortuous. Stein's half-dozen "witches in modern dress" were all youthfully slender, lively of expression, some of them bucktoothed and "prancing" of gait. Although they were married and active sexually, they secretly dreaded the sex act and remained "psychically virgins." They had a "miniminy mouth"; that is, they were " 'mim,' prim, reticent, shy, affected." They tended to be frigid, attract weak, boyish men, hated kissing on the mouth (a witch's kiss was believed to draw out the soul). Often they had affairs, mainly with married men. They hated and hurt...
Since Bette is too proud to fight, it seems that Authors Daniel Taradash and Elick Moll have run out of plot. But no! Ten-year-old Kevin Coughlin, who has been reading like crazy up to this point, now abhors books and concludes that Bette is a mean old witch. He has nightmares. He listens for the first time to his sub-moronic father. He cuts Bette dead on the street. He even sneaks into the library in the dead of night and sets it on fire...