Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play is as inert as a stone, and Jo seph Wiseman as Oppenheimer is mannered, overly European and brittle. One sees in him neither the passion for pure science nor the intellectual arrogance that one feels were intrinsic characteristics of Oppenheimer. The play, if it is to qualify as drama, ought to tingle with the anguish of a man torn between his country and his conscience. Instead, it is misted over with sadness - as of a man or woman deeply drawn to two equal loves, who must, in the nature of things, lose...
Moorish-Byzantine architecture is overlaid with stalactite-jagged pieces of stone that evoke a heavy grottolike or grim moonscape atmosphere and achieve a feeling of gloom and doom. Although there were some boos for the scenery on opening night, it did suggest a kind of nightmarish psychological symbolism, and to some critics it made the torment of the characters seem much more lifelike...
...collection included an almost unparalleled variety of stone religious statuettes, ranging from a voluptuous pair of seminude 1st century dryads to a masterly 5th century lion's head from Mathura. There were ferocious bronze twelve-armed Kashmirian deities, smiling eastern Indian Krishnas and serene Nepalese Buddhas, to say nothing of inlaid daggers and textiles woven with iridescent beetle wings. Yet to many scholars, the most delightful items were the exquisite 16th-to-19th century manuscript paintings from the Rajput and Mogul civilizations of western and central India. These, in more than 70 sprightly miniatures, detailed stories of the gods...
...auto to attend each of Allen's twice-yearly, 17-day camp meetings. For those who want to stay, there is even a subdivision called Miracle Valley Estates, where the modest homes are dominated by Allen's own twelve-sided house of wood and cut stone, with a swimming pool under a simulated stained-glass canopy...
...some of the abrasive men and controversial companies involved in modern mergers. They prefer to be known as leaders of "multi-industry" or "multimarket" concerns. Yet "conglomerate" seems an apt title. Derived from the Latin verb, conglomerare, meaning "to roll together," it is also the geological term for heterogeneous stone fragments fused into a mass. However much the word grates, it has become fused into the business language...