Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adjective bin. They have felt in Brando's acting a kind of abysmal reality that not even Barrymore, who in all technical respects was far and away Brando's superior, could plumb. At moments he can vanish into the character he is portraying like a salamander into stone-or a tiger in the reeds. Said one thoughtful playgoer: "The only other place I've ever seen such a terrifying shift of identity is in a schizophrenic ward. But this man has control of what he's doing. He has the power of total camouflage, like...
...private colleges; he is an outspoken admirer of Harvard and its educational leaders. He considers President-emeritus James B. Conant '14 "one of the greatest men of his time," and described President Pusey's pronouncement of last year on academic freedom as a statement "fit to be engraved in stone...
...stone slab on Plympton Street attests to the age and tradition of Apthrop House, the fine old example of colonial architecture which is the official residence of the Master of Adams. When the new Housemaster was chosen this summer his instructions were that in redecorating Apthrop he was to retain the traditional style of the official rooms but could decorate the private rooms as he chose. In consequence, visitors still find only somber propriety, unless perchance they should glimpse through an open door the Master's private dining room with its intricate gold patterns embossed on walls of vivid Chinese...
...small stone building that contains the Black Stone, said to have been given by the Angel Gabriel to Abraham...
...Mind. In Philadelphia, after Harry Stone, 44. walked into the Einstein Medical Center and complained that he had suffered severe headaches for several years, surgeons began removing a 32-inch knife blade that had been embedded in his skull for 28 years...