Word: hemlock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money they can into their homes, cash-flush yuppies have found that a garden can soak up limitless discretionary income. After seeds and dirt, there are goatskin gloves and Garden Weasels, wide- throated anvil pruners from Rolcut of England, not to mention $15,000 for a Sargent weeping hemlock tree. The yuppies quickly master the rituals and floral lore, swap compost recipes at dinner parties. Mulching has become elevator talk...
STONE sets Plato's Socratic dialogues against the accounts of contemporary Greek dramatists to try to reconstruct the story of Socrates and Athens. Plato, Socrates' Boswell, so to speak, was often disingenuous in recounting his mentor's ordeal. Through Plato, Socrates became a noble martyr forced to drink the hemlock because of he constantly exhorted his fellow Athenians to virtue. But, Stone writes, Socrates wasn't tried simply for being a nudge. Socrates may be "revered as a nonconformist, but few realize that he was a rebel against an open society and the admirer of a closed...
...gods and corrupting the youth of Athens. The sage makes an eloquent plea in self-defense but is nonetheless found guilty and condemned to die. His disciples urge him to escape into exile, but Socrates refuses and carries out the court's decree by drinking a cup of poison hemlock...
...searched old faces and made broad gestures when memory clicked into place; yes, the hair is thin; yes, the belly is big. Winston Hart, 71, was there, a very tall, strong-faced man called "Hemlock," with powerful knotty arms, his pants held up by braces, who was a woods foreman for the Brown Paper Co. Another bull of the woods, Albert Gadwah, 79, showed up wearing a brand- new red shirt, size extra large. "I never had a bit of a problem with those boys," he said. Raymond White, 58, from Guildhall, Vt., seemed too young to have memories...
...assisting a suicide is a crime, but under the First Amendment, how-to manuals may be published. Thus, Let Me Die Before I Wake, put out by Hemlock, a Los Angeles-based organization named for the potion taken by Socrates, has been sold freely in bookstores. A more compassionate work than its British counterpart, Let Me Die gives case histories of desperately sick patients who have sought to end their lives. In recounting successful attempts, the book gives the precise doses of the drugs used...