Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stone's The Trial of Socrates provides an unintended counterweight to the central theses of Bloom, who fancies himself a disciple of Socrates. Stone, the legendary lefty muckraking journalist, set out in his retirement to write a sweeping tome on freedom of thought in human history. His studies inevitably drew him back to Athens. "There, like so many before me," he writes, "I fell in love with the Greeks...
...great paradox tormented Stone as he confronted the Greeks. Athens was the glory of Hellas, "the earliest society where freedom of thought and its expression flourished on a scale never known before, and rarely equaled since." Yet Athenian democracy also put Socrates on trial for speaking his mind and voted to execute him for his "crimes." This horrified Stone, and, he writes, "shook my Jeffersonian faith in the common man." The Trial of Socrates is the result of his effort to understand, if not excuse, how Athens could have besmirched its good name and that of democracy by killing Socrates...
Like water running over stone, the novels of Aharon Appelfeld slowly make a deep impression. Badenheim 1939 (1980), The Age of Wonders (1982), To the Land of the Cattails (1986) are imperceptibly abrasive, patient and stubborn in their scourings. Appelfeld's recurring subject is daily life just before and after Hitler's war against the Jews. The central crimes of the period need no enhancement, having been passed directly into the stream of conscience by the unadorned testimony of the survivors...
...Nablus. They arrested more than 20 troublemakers and beat countless others. The city and its surrounding refugee camps were placed under a curfew. The violence spread elsewhere, and the army began using bullets once again. Three Palestinians were killed and half a dozen wounded in clashes between troops and stone- throwing protesters in the West Bank village of Anabta...