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...they call me a witch?" asks the beautiful and bewildered accused in Playwright Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning. "I live alone . . . speak French to my poodle [and] have a peacock which, on Sundays dines with me indoors...
...recently to preach a mission against the ungodly superstitions present in Witgoor; but when it came time to pass the plate, Victor had pointedly ignored Martha Minnen's outstretched offering. Soon afterward Martha's children came home from school complaining that no one would play with a witch's kids. That was when Martha decided...
...What do you know about this affair?" the harassed judge asked another witness, Martha's own sister Emma. "The whole parish is full of it," she answered. "How did it begin?" asked the court. "Well," said Emma, "one day Maria had to feed her pigs and the 'witch' came near the pigs' fodder, so Maria threw the fodder into the toilet. Then the witch gave the sparrows to the children." "I deny everything, everything, everything," said Martha Minnen...
Last week, after a week's thought, Turnhout's judges decided Martha Minnen was no witch. They awarded her, not the $200 damages she had demanded...
Lynch claims it would not be a "witch-hunt" but rather a "traitor-hunt." He yesterday said that at Harvard "98% of the faculty are 100% American, but there are a small minority who are trying to undermine democracy...