Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Visit Britain poster. Streaming out of London by scooter, motor bike and train, the kids swarmed into two seaside resorts, the prearranged settings for their teen-age rites of spring. There, in two days of juvenile violence without parallel in England, they left no stone unhurled to turn holiday into holocaust...
...SPIRE, by William Golding. In this medieval parable a saintly, obsessed canon orders a huge stone spire to be built atop his fragile cathedral, only to realize at last that his monument was not to God's glory...
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY-Low Memorial Library, Broadway at 116th. A collection of Chinese art objects-ceramics, bronzes, jades and sculptures-is dominated by a half-ton Buddha head in stone, described by Art History Professor Jane G. Mahler as "one of the most important pieces ever to come out of China." Through June...
Soon after the Oregon result was clear, the editors decided to postpone the nonpolitical cover that was coming off the press and switch to Nelson Rockefeller. Working largely from the reporting of Thimmesch and San Francisco Correspondent Roger Stone, who covered the general side of the Oregon campaign, Writers David Lee and Ronald Kriss put together the cover story for Senior Editor Champ Clark. In the process, all of them found renewed confidence in an old principle: political polls may stir up a lot of publicity, but they are no substitute for knowing, thinking journalists...
...houses of some 50,000 Nubians, their walls of tobey (from which Spanish takes the word adobe) gaudily painted with symbols ranging from scorpions to flowering steamboats, dissolve and collapse as the Nile laps among them. Of 43 villages, 33 have already been evacuated, their citizens relocated in stone-and-cement villages replete with grocery markets and food-processing plants, at Kom Ombo, 40 miles north of Aswan. Many Nubians resent the move. Their culture, which survived waves of invaders from the Egyptians to the Turks, seems doomed to certain dilution in the new settlements. But as one Egyptian said...