Word: witching
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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From wishes, they progressed to comparisons ("A witch's coat is like a mussel's shell"), then to dreams and lies ("I was born nowhere/And I live in a tree."). The next step led to lines beginning "I used to . . ." alternated with "But now I . . ." This especially charmed the kids, perhaps because it reminded them of their own constant physical change. First-Grader Andrea Dockery offered a typical thought...
Local magnate Max Wasserman has recently purchased her estate, but Cambridge residents have been slow to forget the legend of "the witch of Harvard Square." People don't forget immigrant assistant milliners who earn over $4 million in 40 years...
Some facts may eventually emerge from a closed juvenile court hearing next month. But the suspicions fanned by the incident may not subside for years. Says the father of one boy who was questioned recently: "It's a witch hunt. You don't know what's going to happen; there are names being bandied about and scare rumors. Who knows how much evidence there is? It gets your stomach in a knot...
...meant neoclassicism, and that meant Rome. One of the first on the trek to Italy was Joseph Anton Koch, who headed south in 1794. There is an almost schizophrenic gap between his early landscapes, conceived in reverent imitation of Poussin, and a later painting like Macbeth and the Witches (1834). It is a full-blown response to Goethe's Sturm und Drang, with its flailing energies of cloud and sea, its Gothic spikiness, and its perverse adoption of Michelangelo's image of God on the Sistine ceiling for the pointing gesture of the first witch...
...Wicked Witch not invited to Sleeping Beauty's christening...