Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HALL OF MIRRORS, by Robert Stone. From an unpromising cast of New Orleans drifters and wastrels, the author has fashioned one of the most vibrant first novels of the year...
...Sullivan is mumbling again about retiring, but no one believes him. Sure as Mass on Sunday, Old Stone Face will be back next season with yet another "really big shew" and everyone will be asking the old question. Perhaps the best answer is given by an old Sullivan regular, Comic Alan King. "Ed does nothing," he says. "But he does it better than anyone else in television...
...physical fitness enthu- siasts who run Monogram Industries Inc. of Los Angeles, big decisions are made on the run. In the late afternoon, Chief Executive Martin Stone, 39, jogs a measured mile with his dog, a golden retriever named Charles de Gall-Stone, while he reflects on the day's corporate affairs. More often than not, Stone and Executive Vice President Harvey...
...British pavilion, flickering images of medieval pomp and ceremony are flashed on rough stone walls, as a multichannel instrument-plus-electronic score by Guy Wolfenden, equally blurred at first, moves on from muttered chaos to an idealized, magisterial fanfare. France has at its axis an abstract structure of curved interlocking planes and flashing lights, designed by Sculptor-Composer Yannis Xenakis, who also provided a flickering musical score that mirrors the visual shapes...
...inhabitants in pre-recorded history developed a civilization with advanced knowledge of astronomy and engineering, great road-building ability, a written language. Most famous achievements were their alms (temples) and moai (great stone monoliths), the largest of which weigh up to 80 tons, rise to the height of a six-story building. Now in the person of Capuchin Father Sebastian Englert, 78, comes word that quick action is needed if the great sculptures are to survive. "It is an urgent matter," Father Sebastian told a New York audience, "which cannot wait...