Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long last, a collection of 250 of the world's oldest known works of art is on display at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, in an exhibition called "Ice Age Art." A few, like the carved stone amulet of a female pregnant on one side but not on the other, are priceless originals...
...sculpture of a horse carved out of a mammoth tusk; it hardly seems possible that this graceful piece, fashioned more than 30,000 years ago, is one of the oldest objets d'art ever found. No less remarkable are the voluptuous "Venus" statuettes, some of them coiffed in Stone Age chic, that date back some 27,000 years. Even the wall paintings, some of them on a larger-than-life scale, show a mastery of form and perspective that was not seen again for almost 6,000 years...
...Stone, L.H.D., journalist. For your monumental and legendary achievements as a journalist, for your grand erudition in literature, and for your boundless enthusiasm in classical thought and letters...
Dorrit Cohn, acting chairman of the department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Donald A. Stone, chairman of the department of Romance Languages and Literatures, said yesterday they have found replacement for the assistant professors currently teaching Old French and Old German who will leave at the end of this year...
Today the Palestinian faces the human stone wall, and it is no wonder if, after beating his head against it in vain, he seizes a stick of gelignite and blows up himself, the wall, and his unresponsive fellow human beings on the far side. What else is he, or anyone...