Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven days, the isle of Sao Jorge in the Portuguese Azores pitched like a cork. It was another of the unsettling earthquakes that periodically shake the middle-Atlantic archipelago. As Sao Jorge's 20,000 inhabitants fled into the streets, at least 1,200 of their stone and tile houses crumbled, and the local jailer saved the lives of his five prisoners by freeing them on parole shortly before the hoosegow collapsed. An eleven-ship rescue fleet evacuated 1,800 islanders, whose chief, and understandable, concern was the plight of their abandoned unmilked cows...
...undergo a kind of tribal bar mitzvah in which reeds are forced up their noses and down their throats to bleed out the spirits of their mothers. Some tribal warriors still eat a slice of a dead victim's liver to absorb his magic. Barely out of the Stone Age, this primitive land, composed of Australian Papua and the United Nations trust territory of Northeast New Guinea, was last week nevertheless preparing itself for self-government...
...STONE AND THE KNIGHTS COMPANION by V. S. Naipaul. 159 pages. Macmillan...
Novelist Naipaul takes as his hero a 62-year-old bachelor, Mr. Stone, head librarian in a commercial firm, who treasures all the "uncreative years" of his life "comfortingly stacked away in his mind." But one day, sitting in the pub at lunchtime sipping his glass of Guinness, he becomes aware of a "new sensation of threat, nagging him at last into an awareness of his own acute unhappiness." He looks in a.shop window on the way home and sees the reflection of an old man. In terror, he marries a widow and commences his life...
...exhibit shows the variety of Max Ernst's works. "The Forest" (1926) and "Nature at Day-break" (1938), both oils rich and stifling in their intensity, are particularly striking. Joan Miro's bright colors and large simplified forms, distorted to his purposes, blossom in the famous "Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird" (1926), the large "Landscape" (1927), and another highpoint of the exhibition, "Portrait of a Lady...