Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...project with the sophomoric code name Midnight Climax. The women, apparently moonlighting prostitutes, were paid $100 for each assignment by the CIA. The operation, conducted by CIA alchemists from 1954 until 1963, was part of a quarter-century hunt for a psychogenic philosophers' stone. The purpose was to discover the secret of brainwashing, to protect U.S. agents and gain control over enemy spies...
Since the constitution protects the expression of even the most reprehensible ideas, most constitutional scholars do not agree. Insists University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone: "One of the functions of the First Amendment is to provide a safety valve, to allow people a chance to blow off steam." Concerning Marquette Park, Northwestern University Law Professor Nathaniel Nathanson says flatly: "The coalition is clearly entitled to march, and the city is entitled to enough notice to prepare...
...down. We stuck it out until the heat got so bad we couldn't stand it. Then we left with the dog, cat, our daughter and one bag of dirty laundry." By next morning, all that remained of Cook's $100,000 house was a crumbling stone fireplace and a flattened metal garage door...
...Rome, he made a sketch of every antique marble he could lay eyes on. His vast correspondence shows that he had read and memorized work by almost every known Latin writer, from Cicero to Plautus. He recommended "a complete absorption in statues," but "one must avoid the effect of stone." Rubens' large altarpiece, still in Antwerp Cathedral, of the Descent from the Cross, 1611-14, demonstrates exactly what he meant. The figure of Christ, the pale, dead God sliding down the cross into the arms of the living, is a visual quotation from Michelangelo-the kind of thing artists...
...Stone Mabry Greenville...