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Bevan also found "hate," contributed by the period of political witch-hunting known to history as McCarthyism-hate of Communism, hate of Socialism, hate of Radicalism, and hate of anything could be regarded as tainted by any of these...
...Tanganyika, however, lions are man's most prevalent enemy. There the fashion trend is toward lion skins. Some 40 years ago in the bush of Mkalama District, the private stable of lionmen trained and kept by one ambitious "sorcerer" (a practitioner of black magic as opposed to a witch doctor, who deals in white magic) committed an estimated 200 murders in a single three-month period...
...Fields. Though they have since moved into major concert halls, Gamson, Oxenburg and Co. still produce works that are rarely if ever done by other companies in the U.S. or abroad-Gluck's Le Cadi Dupe, Purcell's Witch of Endor, Cherubini's Medea, Handel's Julius Caesar. Despite packed houses, the company's current deficit runs to about $35,000 a season-which in the opera business really adds up to a howling financial success. Contributions ("We never know where we're going to get the money") cover the losses...
...roll, Hollywood movies ("The Killer with a Soul . . . You'll love him . . . Bring the family"), the wide screen, blaring jazz bands, TV commercials. But before long, a little boy (played by Chaplin's son, Michael, 11) buttonholes the king, and in a semihysterical rage rants about witch-hunting, the atom bomb, freedom ("There's no freedom here . . . They don't give you a passport"). The Committee on Un-American Activities has named the boy's parents as Communists. They have left the party but refuse to finger their friends and are sentenced to two years...
...bald, bulb-nosed-Kukla and mischievous Ollie. the one-toothed dragon who could not breathe tire because his father swallowed too much water swimming the Hellespont. Or sensitive Fletcher Rabbit, who complained when he washed his flop-ears: "I can't do a thing with them," or Beulah Witch, who was arrested for reckless broomstick driving on Halloween, or their foil and sweetheart Fran Allison, the only live character on the show, with her infectious Midwesternisms ("Wouldn't you just know that would happen, just honestly"). Fran was so taken by the satiric little land of make-believe...