Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cora du Bois, Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor of Anthropology, will retire this June...
...another result of the Lennon-Ono controversy, Cambridge newsstands will not carry the November 23 issue of Rolling Stone. Capitol News Company, the sole local distributer of the magazine, has not ordered this issue because it contains a full-page foldout of the pair in the nude...
Joking, frequently punning, becomes an obsession in the dialogue, not to relieve tension or to underline the callousness present in those following the strangler, but simply, it seems, to flesh out a weak plot with vaudeville routines that would have left the Old Howard crowd stone cold. One suspect, a wholesale grocer who is termed a "pickle salesman" by the police, sheepishly confesses that he has slept with about 300 different women in the last six months. "My, you've been a busy little beaver," a detective quips. Not to be outdone, his sidekick adds, "Find out what diet...
...rooms the researchers discovered a slightly damaged 10-in. statue of a fertility goddess lying face down near some primitive sculptor's tools. Carved from soft stone and rich in detail, the statuette is long and slender, in contrast to the crude neolithic sculpture thought to be typical of this early period. "In five years," says Peabody Anthropologist C. C. Lemberg-Karlovsky, "this piece will be lectured in all coffee-table art books as a prize example of primitive sculpture...
...combat life's absurdities deepen as he faces the dark despondency he finds in Europe. Like a fallen angel, he keeps looking homeward for the revitalizing sensual graces of Algeria. And in these journeys are intimations of the ideas in his future writings. In the heavy stone city of Oran, he finds a refreshing boredom in the ordinary down-to-earth commercialism that appears as the setting for his later novel, The Plague. Among the flowers and ruins at Tipasa, Camus discovers that " 'I see' equals I believe,' " and this supports his idea about living intensely...