Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Those Who Love, Stone...
...October and November when we had a chance to pour concrete. We shoveled sand and gravel and concrete into metal bowls which students carried on their heads and threw into the cement mixer. Others picked up wheelbarrows full of cement, raced down narrow boardways and dumped them into the stone bed of the foundation. It was hard work and the sun was getting hotter, but when the day was over we could see the floor of the building that we had made...
Tastes have also changed. Tourists-with the possible exception of the Germans-no longer have the ambition to plow through such weighty tomes as the Guides Bleus, which describe every stone and tree in fine print. "To sell," says one London publisher, "you have to put out atmospherics. You have to provide a well-written feeling for the place, a lot of color, a lot of narrative." Such books are all to the good, for when they are done by sensitive writers, they can achieve an almost poetic understanding of places they cover. One such series is the Companion Guides...
Could it be, Whitney wondered, that the unions have "concluded that they don't need us, that we are weak and not worth saving"? He did not deny that the Trib is financially weak indeed. "Maybe they think that in this pale stone," he wrote, "there is another drop to be squeezed out. There isn't. The newspapers of this city, for all the fact of the competition among them and the ancient work practices they are forced to follow, have the most expensive union contracts in the country...
...near the square in recognition of the magnetism the extra exerts. Perhaps it could be a meeting place that sold inexpensive refreshments and provided free entertainment by talented people from the University: folk singers, rock and roll groups, dramatists, etc. Jane Page '68 Megan Greene '66 Minam Stone...