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...tragedy, as I see it, is that this operation was not an intelligent inquiry into the fitness of a teacher (something which is always in order) but a Bible-belt and anti-foreigner witch hunt. The forces which hate the foreigner, hate the English, etc., etc., were loosed. I disagree with Russell's contention that morals are entirely your own business, because nothing can be entirely your own business if you are a part of any social group. But I do think he would have been harmless as a mathematics professor. Those higher mathematicians I've seen...
...African Poison Murders), cousin-by-marriage of Aldous and Julian, told a Manhattan reporter how she had her personal devils exorcised by black tribal quacks in Kenya Colony, British East Africa: "There was a lot of mumbo-jumbo with a goat, for which I paid three shillings. The witch doctor chalked up my face and between my toes. I did as I was told until I was supposed to lick the intestines of a goat. I hired a substitute for a shilling, being assured that this wouldn't break the spell...
...month investigation of un-American activities. Boiled down out of some 7,000 pages of testimony (3.773,600 words) taken from 205 witnesses, it was a document that no radical could have expected from the Dies Committee. Loudly critics have cried that Martin Dies was leading a witch hunt, that he was emulating A. Mitchell Palmer, that he was a Fascist, that he relied on hearsay and innuendo and accused individuals of Communist activities without giving them a chance to reply. As the parade of disgruntled ex-Communists to the witness stand continued, and as Chairman Dies muttered darkly about...
...month investigation of un-American activities. Boiled down out of some 7,000 pages of testimony (3,773,600 words) taken from 205 witnesses, it was a document that no radical could have expected from the Dies Committee. Loudly critics have cried that Martin Dies was leading a witch hunt, that he was emulating A. Mitchell Palmer, that he was a Fascist, that he relied on hearsay and innuendo and accused individuals of Communist activities without giving them a chance to reply. As the parade of disgruntled ex-Communists to the witness stand continued, and as Chairman Dies muttered darkly...
...Eliot and South Streets--the area now occupied by Eliot House and Memorial Drive used to be a low-lying swampland on which "squatters" lived in cabins, whose disappearance into the swamp in the early days of Cambridge provided one of the chief sources of excitement for local witch-hunters...