Word: woode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saturday morning on Seventh Street was ugly. The sun rose coldly on blocks of burned out buildings, piles of cement-encrusted bricks, charred wood reaching silently into the air. And all over there was a horrible coat of sweat--the dew of the morning and the hosing-down of the night. Smoke hung quietly in the air; the yellow-brown tear gas was still there...
There is no room here to give a sense of the story's wonderful place nor to indicate some of the marvelous flashes of originality. An entire epoch of a fascinating life has been dumped onto paper. It is blessing to find someone admit to love of good wood, to talk about concerts and buses after the dedicated artistry which burdens even the good material in the Advocate. Why, the price of admission would be well spent if it bought you nothing but an introduction to Mr. Dorcas' mind, whoever's mother's son he might...
ROBERT E. WOOD Associate Professor...
...assembly. While allowing that some of the complaints might be justified, the paper warned that such freedoms "cannot be used against the character of our socialist sys tem." As for the students' protest against police brutality during the rioting, the paper came straight to the point. "When chopping wood," it said, "splinters must fly." The students got a new ally, how ever, in Poland's Roman Catholic Episcopate, which broke its silence on the outbursts by protesting the government's "brutal use of force...
...part of curling tradition as "the usual drink in order to encourage the growth of barley." The game was carried to Canada in the mid-1700s by Scottish soldiers who melted cannon balls into 60-lb. "irons" for a frolic on the frozen St. Lawrence. Pioneer farmers ringed hard wood blocks with iron or used lard buckets filled with cement...