Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SWORD IN THE STONE (Disneyland) is as bright as Excalibur. It is the ageless legend of the exploit by which young Arthur, the humble knight's equerry, became King of England. Arthur is simple of soul and fairly regal in silence, but Merlin is a beguilingly garrulous, absent-minded wizard...
...fought off Earl Allen's fast-closing Swift Ruler to win by half a length. In another Derby prep, Raymond Guest's Tom Rolfe, a son of Ribot, the Man o' War of Europe, raced to a 1 3/4-length victory over Native Charger in the Stepping Stone Purse at Churchill Downs...
...there is the subject of this ingenuous but significant autobiography, the story of an African Horatio Alger who made good his determination to go to college in America. It is the account of one man's odyssey from the Stone Age to the Space Age, and, above all, it is an example of good will between black and white...
What texts! Thompson chooses his texts with the care of a sculptor choosing his stone, a calligrapher his nib. His settings of three Horatian odes sound fresh after 41 years: one wonders how those dissonances and lush chromaticisms (which have since become less frequent in Thompson's music) struck listeners in the twenties...
Alabaster Soul. Now united again after 2,600 years and surrounded by statuary from his period, Psamtik's minister has regained his look of permanence. A closed form in lustrous alabaster, his presence is pounded out of stone with a mallet as if hacked from timelessness by human persistence. The pose may be stiff, but the archaic smile on the ancient Egyptian's lips reflects an implicit belief that he has found a house for his soul and that his eyes gaze toward eternity. Yet without patient scholarship, he would only have added to the historic rubble...