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...dialogue modern and even Soc Relish. Detailed arguments in the book often reappear contained in conversational sentences. For example, Huxley insists that men searching for evil do so from a sense of their own sinfulness. When the Archbishop in the play puts a temporary halt to Grandier's witch-trial and the chief exorcist complains that "the Archbishop has made evil impossible in this place," Whiting uncannily reveals the prosecutor's unconscious guilt...
Aldous Huxley meant his study of an historical incident to be both an abstraction of the witch-trial mentality and a critique of the McCarthy hearings. Whiting thankfully preserves the abstract quality even when tempted by the theatrical. On the night before his death, Huxley's Grandier instantly calms his fear when his older colleague assures him that "God is here." The playwright, however, foregoes the sudden conversion and instead has Grandier change slowly through the last...
There is no acting in amateur variety shows, only showing off. But some people deserve to be shown off. Notable in this production for one reason or another were a twitchy witch named Tarantula (Betsy Gesmer) who moved better than she talked, a sweet young thing named Hollyhock played by Polly Gambrill, a Squire (Susan Levin) who thought she was Marryin' Sam, a Bard (Sue Harmon) who could sing, and a rock singer (and composer), Elaine Woo, who moved better than she sang...
...folks, breaking previous campaign promises for new roads and wells, and living it up in Dar es Salaam. Voters who showed up at one rally greeted their Congressman with such prolonged boos that he went home and shot himself, "accidentally," in the hand. Another was haunted by the local witch-doctor, who went so far as to put a bloodstained coffin containing a strangled chicken outside the polling booth on election...
Demand is so high that the search for fresh water and for the means of putting it to work economically has become an expanding challenge to scientific ingenuity. Dowsers, who used to roam the land with their unreliable witch-hazel divining rods, are no longer adequate-although there are still enough of them around to call a meeting of the American Society of Dowsers Inc. this week in Vermont. Man has taught himself to prospect for new sources of water by seismic refraction and aerial photography. Since World War II, engineers have gone into the remotest valleys to dig wells...