Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dead Sea Scrolls belong to the realm of Hollywood make-believers and the nearly dead myth of the Kensington Stone...
...part, "Goodie" Knight saddled up, too. He has no intention of giving way to Knowland, for easygoing Goodie likes being governor as much as he dislikes Knowland-and nearly as much as he dislikes Richard Nixon. And he is stone-cold to any deal that might have him running for Knowland's vacant seat in the Senate. Even in a state that already has a Knowland and a Nixon, Goodie thinks about 1960, and that potent weapon, the 70-man state delegation to the G.O.P. Convention. And beyond that, maybe even the big white ranch house down yonder...
...time, as he moved on from Austria to Hungary, and finally to the U.S. in 1921, Sculptor Gross came to feel the same sense of intimacy toward stone, and finally to forms cast in bronze. Last week a one-man show of 30 of his wood, stone and bronze pieces opened at Manhattan's Duveen-Graham gallery. By late afternoon a long line of visitors stretched in front of the gallery, patiently waiting their turn to see what was inside...
They were not disappointed. His wood carvings included a shapely girl Performing, a Young, a Proud and a Happy Mother, and a Family of Three, one of whom delightfully defied gravity in its mother's arms. In stone, he shaped a tender and telling Day Dreamer in white alabaster, a dark and moving image of Naomi and Ruth in lithium stone, a deeply sensual, semi-abstract Reflection in pink alabaster. In bronze, he achieved a rare sense of movement with his Dancing Mother. Happy Baby and Unicyclist. Whimsical and witty, all had the vigor and balance of circus performers...
...police had investigated the building, they asked if there were any place in it that they had not yet examined. Littlefield replied that the only unsearched area was in a cellar directly under Webster's lower laboratory and privy, and that they would have to cut through a stone wall to look there. They declined to go to such effort on such an unlikely chance...