Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death last April of Democrat Pat McNamara, began as the decided underdog in the race against former six-term (1949-60) Governor "G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, 55. After a costly primary vic tory, however, Old Pro Williams found his campaign coffers somewhat depleted, was further slowed by a kidney-stone operation in August. For his part, Griffin manages to sound every bit as liberal as Soapy, and has proved particularly effective in defending his sponsor ship of the Landrum-Griffin Act, whose regulation of union elections and finances is anathema to Detroit's labor leaders. Griffin makes much...
Sensing their inadequacy, such men often approach the steps with the exaggerated skulk of a silent movie Indian. Shoulders forced close together, head dropped but eyes in all directions, they scuttle up the steps close to one of the stone blocks on either side. This saves half the face from sleazy scrutiny. Once behind the protecting curtain of columns they turn and walk 25 paces to the doorway...
...quite irritating after a while. When he plays to his mistress, Marie, he looks and acts like a little boy; with the Doctor, he seems completely unconcerned to be the victim of a deranged experimenter; with the Drum Major (when he ought to be dead drunk, incidentally, and not stone sober) his "Let's be friends" sounds like Mickey Mouse addressing Black Pete. Quite apart from the debate as to whether Woyzeck should be a clod destroyed by a wicked society or a sensitive young man destroyed by society period, this Woyzeck could not be what the author...
...Rolvaag wins narrowly and Short wins big next Tuesday, as both very likely will, the victory will have a double irony. For Rolvaag it will mean being saddled once again with a lieutenant governor who wants to use the position as a stepping-stone to the governorship. The plight of DFL's intellectual aristocracy is even worse though, for if the Democrats win, leadership of what once was a potent arm of liberalism will fall to a crochety maverick they tried to repudiate and an opportunist they throoughly mistrust
...chess, astronomy, paper instead of papyrus. Compared with heavy Romanesque, their architecture seemed to defy gravity, lifting lacy ceilings that appeared to float like airy tents above thin columns of jasper and porphyry, while within each courtyard water splashed from fountains, turning their Islamic buildings into cool cases in stone...