Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...genealogical collection, the number of visitors has increased by 75% in recent months. The New York Public Library, with one of the world's largest genealogical libraries, reported an increase in attendance in the month following Roots of 37% over February 1976. At the National Archives, the gray stone temple on Washington's Constitution Avenue, where Haley found his inspiration, mail inquiries about genealogical services have averaged 2,344 weekly since the broadcasts, v. 758 for the week before...
...Clark Gable. The ceiling of her bedroom is painted sky blue, with puffy white summer clouds-her brother Richard's artwork. In the back there is a small swimming pool, beside which stand a 6-ft. metal robot, a souvenir from one of her TV specials, and a stone statue of a naked maiden-wearing a wig and sunglasses. Out front is a 1955 Dodge Royal Lancer. One of the ugliest cars ever to come out of Detroit, it is nonetheless a treasure to her: "I like cars that look like real cars I could identify when...
GOSSIP IS the favorite American pastime, and Rolling Stone magazine is its chief practitioner in the rock music galaxy. Rolling Stone charts the position of the stars, focusing its telescope on the brightest novas and supernovas. One of its prime luminaries this year is Fleetwood Mac, a group characterized by professional success and personal distress. Since their 1975 bombshell Fleetwood Mac, Warner Brothers' all-time bestseller, three marriages inside the group have crumbled. Despite these marital problems, the beat goes on, as Fleetwood Mac has released a worthy follow-up album, appropriately entitled Rumours...
...enormous influence on many people," the colleague, Dr. A. Stone Freedberg '29, professor of Medicine Emeritus, said of Blumgart's teaching and research...
...chic Boston, of specialty shops and bars and steak houses with hokey names" and "the old Boston, increasingly angry at the threats to its life-style and existence, convinced that somebody else was getting everything, while it was getting nothing more than the shaft." Boston's cursing, stone-throwing resistance to busing was not the reaction of "a liberal city being hypocritical." Instead, it was "a parochial city with a long history of ethnic and racial distrust and bigotry" integrating its schools with fear, anger and some violence-but with remarkably few deaths or serious injuries...