"Newman, Kim - The McCarthy Witch Hunt" - читать интересную книгу автора (Newman Kim) She looked at him, almost with pity. 'You don't understand, do you?'
He ignored her and continued his spiel, 'While your freedom of worship is an unbreakable plank of American law, it is a federal offence to practice sorcery or necromancy, to commune with devils and spirits inimical to the Christian faith of the United States of America.' 'Do your neighbours know,' Dwight shouted, loud enough for the whole block to hear, 'that you fuck goats for Satan?' Mrs Stevens fled indoors. Everyone else retreated too, calling in children, shutting doors tight. Soon housewives would be telephoning each other, spreading the word on that Stevens girl, keeping their children away from her daughter, blaming little Johnny's grazed knee on the evil eye, saying you never could tell ... 'She's the Devil's Temptation, Deacon,' Dwight said, 'real tight 'n' juicy.' 'Shut up,' Finlay said, disgusted with his fellow inquisitor, 'and drive us back to the city.' 'Crabby, aint'cha, Deacon Finlay?' 'Just drive.' 1947 'I don't understand,' said Louis B. Mayer, pomp shrivelling under the glare of Chairman J. Parnell Thomas, 'we showed it like it was in that picture. We had a real witch, with the hook nose and the broom and the flying monkeys. We had the song, Congressman, that every Faithful American sings, "Ding-Dong, the Witch is Dead" ...' are interested, rather, in the, um,' - he consulted his notes - 'the part played in the photoplay by the character described as, you will pardon the expression, "Glinda the Good", the Witch of the North.' Mayer's face fell and he almost blubbered, 'there was a War coming. Things were different.' 'Were they indeed?' Thomas pressed the point. Finlay had gone beyond amusement and was beginning to be bored by the HUCAC hearings. Probing Hollywood was good for headlines but no one really believed Beverly Hills was a nest of Satanists. Undoubtedly, there had been witches in Tinseltown (Louella Parsons, for one) but if the extent of their maleficence was sneaking a few lines lampooning the clergy into a Busby Berkeley musical, then Finlay would rather be going after more deep-rooted conspiracies. He looked around the Caucus Room of the House's Old Office Building, star-spotting. He'd heard Robert Taylor would be coming and Adolphe Menjou. But this far Thomas - a shrimp politician of the old school, so crooked he'd have to be screwed into the ground when his time came - had concentrated on big money not big names and was hauling studio heads over the coals. During the War, there'd been a craze for pro-witch movies. I Married a Witch, with Fredric March and Veronica Lake, was a services comedy, with a gruff general and his enchantress wife battling Nazi spies on the home front. Hellzapoppin' had Olsen and Johnson as inept warlocks summoning the |
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