Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welcome and moving was the warm humanity of Cardinal Cushing's sympathy and understanding for Jackie in her many tragedies and the bitterness and condemnation she now faces. And how passionately and how readily the petty Roman bureaucrats cast the first stone...
...very different kind of museum. It has no collections behind glass, no bored guards, no admonitions to be quiet or keep hands off. In fact, the staff is frankly put out when a child is reluctant to try on an Indian sari, scrape the stretched deerhide with an Algonquin stone tool, or try on the Boston Celtics' Tom Sanders' size 17 basketball shoes...
...knew. It contains a washtub with hand wringer, a coffee grinder, butter churn, mechanical apple peeler and a 1927 Atwater-Kent radio-all in working order. In the Algonquin Indian exhibit, children who once learned about Indians by watching a movie and looking at artifacts now grind maize in stone mortars, chip arrowheads and munch dried berries...
...tragic that with an issue as important as this one, we as blacks find ourselves caught up in a familar historical paradox; simply, polemics are substituted for problem-solving and what starts out as an intellectual problem atrophies into so much stone-throwing and name-calling. Of course one must realize that by jumping in the middle of a stone fight one always runs the risk of being hit and mediation is invariably viewed by one side or the other as a sneaky attempt at a put down. But for either side to view this issue in terms of victory...
Last week a Virginia Circuit Court of Appeals convicted a member of the Big Stone Gap congregation, Roscoe Mullins, 50, of violating a state law against handling snakes "in such a manner as to endanger the life or health of any person." (Another defendant, Kenneth Short, was acquitted of the same charge.) The prosecution claimed that Mullins had also handled the snakes at the service, thus endangering other worshipers. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a $50 fine. Released on $2,000 bond, Mullins said that he would appeal all the way to the Supreme Court...