Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After puffing up 88 spiraling stone steps, Marcel Dupré, the greatest organist in France, sat down at the 500-year-old organ, a magnificent work of art whose 2,270 fluted pipes pyramid majestically into the vaulted heights of Chartres Cathedral. It was to be his first recital in that majestic shrine, an hour to remember. But as Dupré launched into Bach's Toccata and Fugue in G Minor, the organ balked and choked off a high note. The organist winced, but forged on, muttering "lamentable, lamentable...
Others were protesting the pomposity of campus politicians, notably the HCUA, and those ambitious young democrats and rebublicans who see any student elections as a stepping stone to a career. This group, too, is held in unusually low esteem at Harvard, but this did not prevent them from irking those other ambitious campus politicians who are more subtle about their methods of advancement; for example, CRIMSON editors...
...have probably seen Brumidi's Washington than the Mona Lisa in the Louvre. He has even been called the "Michelangelo of the U.S." But Michelangelo, at least, had rich patrons. Brumidi was paid $8 to $10 a day-the same wage that Congress allotted to the plasterers and stone masons who worked on the Capitol. His average salary, for 25 years of labor, was $3,200 a year. And he took on his last job with no assurance of payment...
...factory town of Smethwick. Then, during Britain's general election last October, Gordon Walker suddenly found himself in the middle of an ugly racial campaign conducted by backers of Tory Candidate Peter Griffiths. "If you want a nigger neighbor, vote Labor," read the smears on Smethwick's stone walls. Apparently plenty of Smethwickians were frightened, and although Gordon Walker tried to avoid the issue, Griffiths won in a startling upset...
...Step Pyramid itself is a monument to Imhotep. It was built as the tomb of Pharaoh Zoser, who reigned about 2980 B.C., but Imhotep was its architect. And because it is the oldest stone pyramid, the Egyptians have credited Imhotep with inventing the art of building with cut stone. He was also Zoser's prime minister, a magician, sage, proverb maker, and patron of the scribes who ran the Egyptian bureaucracy. Century by century through Egypt's long history his reputation grew. During the Ptolemaic dynasty (323-30 B.C.), when Greeks ruled Egypt, he was identified with Asclepius...