Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only a generation or so ago, anthropological theory rested on the comfortable and slightly condescending premise that the human mind evolved, over the millennia, in much the same way that man climbed physically up from the primordial slime. The stages in this intellectual growth were clearly identified: the Old Stone Age, the New Stone Age, the Copper, Bronze and Iron Ages. Savage cultures unaccountably stranded well along the path of progress were conveniently classified as civilization's simple-minded dropouts, lingering and isolated echoes from mankind's distant past...
...courts comes the hollow thunk of ball against board. The country-club atmosphere is deceptive-and was planned that way as part of a wall-to-wall overhaul that in two years has transformed the Missouri State Penitentiary at Jefferson City from what a visitor once termed a "loathsome stone purgatory" into one of the nation's model prisons...
Among the world's temples of high finance, none has risen to such eminence in such an unpretentious way as the Switzerland-based Bank for International Settlements. Its five-story, stone-faced headquarters, sandwiched between a tourist agency and a watch shop across from the railway station in Basel, still looks like the second-class hotel it once was. Travelers who often enter its musty lobby hoping to change their money find neither tellers nor vaults nor any cash at all. The B.I.S. keeps elsewhere its $1 billion gold hoard and $1.7 billion in other assets...
...great deal about Viet Nam, now found themselves writing the cover story and the lead Nation article about the Middle East conflict. In the field, reporting the war from the Arab side proved difficult. For days after Egypt expelled U.S. citizens, no transport was available, so Correspondent Roger Stone was interned with 21 other newsmen in a dingy Cairo hotel called the Nile, where life, as he put it, "was a game of Stalag 17." In Beirut, Lee Griggs, reinforced by James Wilde from our Paris bureau, was still able to work, but things were hardly pleasant. In the street...
Many state legislatures are incapable of handling legislation efficiently and stand in nedd of drastic reform, Herbert Wechsler, Stone Professor of Constitutional Law at Columbia University, said yesterday...