Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jews. The massacre has become a symbol not only of Nazi persecution but also of the status of the Soviet Union's 3,000,000 Jews, who are discriminated against in most areas of Soviet life. Soviet his tories all but ignore the tragedy. Only a simple stone marks the grass-covered site, and it says simply that "victims of fascism" lie below. The Jewish identity of the victims was not even mentioned at the anniversary ceremonies that the state grudgingly began conducting last year, the better to control the groups of Jewish mourners who had been gathering annually...
...student generation now with us insists, quite correctly, that the academic institution has enormous power and that we should be careful about what we think and about what we believe and do. And the realization of the scope of this power creates a responsibility to the edge of the stone's ripple...
...group's Faculty advisors are Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lec Shattuck Professor of Urban Government, and Gottfried Haberler, Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade...
...NUMBER of trailers were camped around an old stone house. I asked at the door of one where I could find Donovan. "You might find Don down the road in that house on the right," I was told. Trusty motorcycle and I went to the house on the right and again I asked for Donovan...
...beginning of August, the community was living in five trailers clustered around the walls of an old stone house. Farther down the road, a building which used to be a schoolhouse was being added. The schoolhouse had only been occupied for three weeks and was in a delightful state of confused transition. Old schoolbooks lay in the corners while tins of colored chalk and handwriting books inscribed in Gaelic were strewn all over. Electric guitars and amplifiers surrounded a set of drums at one end of the classroom. Stacks of cardboard eggcrates, to be used to improve the acoustics...