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...fear." But her sharpest arrows are saved for the Premier herself. In a column called "Madame Kingdom," she compared Mrs. Golda Meir to the reincarnation of the three furies rolled into one, "a dragon who pretends to be St. George." Golda was also Lady Macbeth, Medusa, a witch and Sophie Portnoy. When Moshe Dayan and Deputy Premier Yigal Allon lost in their bids for the Premiership Sylvie wrote: "These two generals are only good to fight and frighten Arabs. But they are afraid to say 'boo' to one old Jewish lady...
...During the 1968 campaign it was said by Republicans that R.M.N. had somehow, during his eight long years in political exile, marinated from an "old" Nixon into a "new" Nixon. In other words, he changed from a rather inimically cantankerous McCarthyite witch hunter into a resolutely innovative and pragmatic national leader. It was a metamorphosis that I unwittingly thought was entirely possible. Men like Henry George, Woodrow Wilson, John Dos Passes, Al Smith, Arthur Vandenberg and John McCprmack had all managed to change their convictions; perhaps Nixon had, too. But, as your article on the President's palace guard...
...lengthening lexicon of epithets*-before he exhorted the cadets to take up the challenge of a "lonely and difficult war." Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans had an equally appreciative audience when he told Merchant Marine Academy graduates that "the destroyers of today will not survive any more than the witch burners of Colonial New England or the book burners of Hitler's Germany." At the Air Force Academy, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird said that the Administration is determined to move "from an era of confrontation to an era of negotiation." U.S. "ground combat involvement" in Viet Nam, he added, will...
Esbats at the Sanderses' include dancing, chanting, feasting and the fondling of various ritual objects. When the occasion calls for the elevation of a member to a third-grade witch, there is highly formalized sexual intercourse. But Sanders insists that only those who are married or engaged to each other can partake of this ceremony, in which man and woman represent the sun and moon in fruitful conjunction. New witch recruits must be content to kneel before the altar and receive 40 purifying strokes across the buttocks. Some covens use whips made with shoelaces that may leave permanent scars...
Although Alex adheres to orthodox laws of witchcraft as set down in the ancient Book of Shadows, with income from lectures, public appearances and broadcasts he hopes to establish an international witch center as an alternative to traditional religions. "The simple worship of love and fertility," writes Miss Johns, "can be immensely appealing in a materialistic age overshadowed by the achievements-and horrors-of science." The declaration could hardly come during a more appropriate season. The most important fertility rites in all Wiccadom occur in spring. It is the time to worship fervently in the coven...