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March 7: a town meeting for

Raymond Rouleau's Les sorcières de (FR/GDR, 1957) – , with a screenplay by Marxist philosopher Jean-Paul – is a very early adaptation of Arthur Miller's 1953 The Crucible. An allegory of , the play is a (partially dramatised) retelling of the , a dramatic episode in early US-American history. During several court and town meetings, 200 people were falsely accused of meddling with the Devil; 19 of them were eventually executed.

Miller himself was accused of un-American activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended. Which doesn't mean that are a thing of the past. As easily one can transplant Puritan religious mass hysteria to 1950s McCarthy anti-socialism, as easy is it applicable to the state of the world today.

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in #1692 the Salem Witch Trials took place in Massachusetts in the colonial territory of England. Twenty people were killed, fourteen women and five men hanged, and one man pressed to death. In fourth grade I played Ezekiel Cheever in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," a play as much about the Red Scare of the 1950s as it was about . Our history teacher was a graduate who'd gotten a job teaching Social Studies.

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John R Smith Jnr · @JohnRSmithJnr
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Had another request for a . So I did Lucifer from Creation of the World and Other Business by

So I figured I’d share it like I did the Cassius one on the bird app.

I’d love to hear your thoughts.


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Jason Pettus :verified: · @jasonpettus
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New today at my store, a of 's classic , just $100 or best offer because of damage to the dust jacket (usually $600 in Fine condition). ebay.us/Mc7Eps

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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets

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