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Thus, Snow concluded, although Tizard and Blackett were right, the conflict in the secret politics of high conferences resulted in their defeat. "The minority view was not only defeated, but squashed, The atmosphere . . . had the faint, but just perceptible smell of a witch hunt. Tizard was actually called a defeatist...
Medicine & Baptism. Riou's competitors are voodoo witch doctors, called bocors, whom some islanders still prefer. A few days ago, Riou barely saved an old man's life by stripping a voodoo bandage of rotten leaves from his dangerously infected foot and applying proper treatment. There are other superstitions. Once Riou asked a mother whether she had given her seriously sick baby medicine the hospital had provided. "No, Father," she replied. "Why not?" he asked. The cryptic reply: "He's not baptized yet." Haitian peasants consider a child before baptism only a brute animal on which medicines...
While observing the classes at Newton and conferring with a number of teachers, the College participants in the program will compile "cases": contemporary accounts of incidents such as the Salem witch trial, which illustrate a particular topic. They will rewrite these anecdotes in simpler language and provide an explanatory introduction. In addition, they may do some informal teaching...
...Committee for a SANE Policy, attempting to impress its on the United States Government, this misfortune must have seem ominous. A great many people inside the Arena, were prone to any efforts at disarmament with conciliations to the Soviet Union; and a purblind witch-hunter, at uncovering symbols as was as likely to head the same into an off-key version of the Spangled Banner as he would continuing partnership with the Amendment...
...Committee stands in direct violation of the First Amendment," Frank Wilkenson, field representative of the national committee to abolish the Un-American Activities group, told a group of Harvard, Radcliffe, and Brandeis students. He urged that the students demonstrate by petition their disfavor with the "witch hunting" and "unconstitutional tactics" of the House body...