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...more ambitious levels, The Crucible falls short, for one thing because it is much more interested in manifestations than motives, more preoccupied with the how of Salem than the why. It is what the story stresses, more than the story itself, that reveals its bifocal nature, its linking of "witch-hunting" past & present, its absorption with parallels-despite the axiom that parallel lines never meet. Moral indignation rather than insight has combed over the facts; and in the end The Crucible not only omits something from its picture of Salem, but takes the life out of its inhabitants. The psychological...
...labeled talk of smears and witch-hunting as a "lot of bunk...
...Witch Doctors & Suspicions. Drum had to fight hostility and suspicion not only from the government but also from its readers; they could not believe that any magazine backed by whites was up to any good. Drum is still occasionally criticized by readers. Once when it charged that some witch doctors were encouraging tribal ritual murder, the editors had to placate a delegation of seven witch doctors who went to Drum's editorial office in full raiment to protest strongly the "slur on a noble profession...
...attempt to exploit new TV horizons. The first show of the series set the pace for the future: two original plays (The Badmen, by William Saroyan, and The Trial of Anne Boleyn, by Maxwell Anderson); excerpts from The Mikado, with Britain's famed Martyn Green; two short films (Witch Doctor, an authentic Haitian dance with Jean Leon Destine, and clips from an X-ray movie...
...this, then, a strident proclamation announcing the advent of Fascism? Is it an outright prediction of a Palmer-like series of witch-hunts? The editorial reader Livingston attacks is no more than a deeply felt and statistically plausible qualm on our part, one which we hope is needles. Whatever upset reader Livingston's stomach, then, has little to do with such mild grape-juice as out. It involves ingerdients which he himself unjustly read into the editorial...