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Some Jews wanted to demand that Brown be fired?an effort that, had it succeeded, would have seemed to give substance to his remarks. But calmer heads prevailed and agreed with Dinitz who argued, "We should not be for burning the witch of Salem in the name of General Brown...
...some other Senators fear that a careless investigation may further damage the morale of the intelligence agencies, expose secrets, and even endanger undercover agents. Said he: "This is not comparable to Watergate. An agency of this kind can be destroyed." But Mansfield promised that the committee would conduct "neither witch hunt nor whitewash" but "a full and objective analysis of the role of intelligence gathering in a free society today, measured against current laws, practices and policies." Mansfield also assured his colleagues that "there will be no TV spectaculars in any way, shape or form...
...Internal Security Committee, the group's inquiries and attempts at character defamation were directed largely at anti-war protestors and leaders of radical movements. The national climate though was very different by this time, and the second witch hunt proved highly unsuccessful...
...swamp witch messes about with chicken blood and hogs' entrails, and ticks off possibilities. The Good Thing, she cackles, "must be the right function-in' of an organism as it participates in a form, or the fulfillment of a Ideological principle inherent in all matter, or ..." This owlish comedy is a blackface up side-down version of Merlin's routine in T.H. White's The Once and Future King. Merlin, who had all philosophy beneath his pointed hat, kept getting his spells confused. The swamp witch, who seems confused, spouts philosophy as if she were Hegel...
...hair spray and appliance hum, then, cast off and pregnant, the victim of a ghetto fire Finally back in Georgia, withered and maimed, she completes the seven ages of black woman (something like this seems to be in the author's mind) by be coming a swamp witch herself...