Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their hands and sends them out to do battle on that most inhospitable of mediums: ice. No one knows precisely when the first hockey game-field or ice-was played. The enameled design on a 14th century French cruet shows figures playing a game with sticks and a stone or ball, and there are historians who claim that the field variety originated in ancient Greece or Persia. The actual name hockey was born, so goes one tale, when French explorers pushing into the St. Lawrence Valley in 1740 came upon a band of Iroquois Indians whacking away at an object...
...difficulties lie deeper than just interesting these "ultra-super nominalists" in meaningful political activity. One disillusioned Executive Committee member blamed the club's impotence on those who view the organization as a stepping stone for future political careers. "They range from pseudo-new-Leftists in grey flannel suits to those who would be in SDS, but are too timid to affiliate with it for fear of hurting their budding political careers," he said. "Reluctant to voice any effective platform, they present a generalized liberal view centered entirely around elections, with no conception of extra-political social means of bringing about...
...quarry-some 500 regulars of the 6th NVA Regiment and Viet Cong units-seemed almost as much hunter as prey because of its formidable position. With their backs to the river at the Citadel's south ern end, the Communists fought from ramparts and arches protected by massive stone walls more than eight feet thick. Because of the Citadel's symbolic value to the Vietnamese, the allies first tried to retake it without the fire power punch of artillery and air strikes, but the dug-in Communists repelled wave after wave of assaults...
...Barnes put it, is that "picking which ballet he will do has become one of the greatest spectator sports since strip poker." Last week the great ballet master materialized for the first time this season-in the title role of his ballet Don Quixote-fluttering the audience like a stone thrown among pigeons. Sighed Barnes: "A legitimate thrill such as hearing Mozart play Mozart...
...been working on since 1965, emphasize his profound disillusionment with the state of the world. "If you look at the first page of the newspaper," says Ernst, "you feel such overwhelming disgust for everything going on in the world that you must echo this." In his gigantic stone monoliths, Ernst's angst becomes monumental. The figures are droll and disquieting, monstrous and enchanting. His mammoth Big Brother, wearing a visored cap, or his two Seraphim totems, sticking out their tongues, provoke laughter-and a shiver...