Word: stones
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spaces between the clean, stone cliffs of buildings seemed like enormous, breeze-blown gardens of women's hats-they bloomed for blocks in a frothy, flowering profusion of red, yellow, blue and green...
...ceilings were largely finished with unpainted cypress siding, which had a warm, luxurious look. The floors were of bluestone flagging and designed for radiant heating coils. Breuer, whose knack of combining materials to bring out all their best qualities is much admired by fellow architects, had taken the cold-stone curse off the floors with rugs of hemp matting...
...Whitney's twelfth annual mixed exhibition of contemporary U.S. sculpture and watercolors. On the whole, the watercolors had more quality than the stone, steel, wood and bronze figures on display. But if only because it was less familiar, sculpture stole the show...
Sunlit Boulder. Burly, balding Burr Miller began as a conservative figure sculptor. At 43, Miller best likes "carving nudes out of stone, but I also want to keep the quality of the stone itself, so I suppose I'm trying to blend realism and abstraction, in a way." The translucent alabaster boulder he used for Subconscious was what gave Miller his idea for the figure itself: "I used to turn the boulder and look at it a lot, in the sunlight that came in from the garden window, and after a while it got so I could practically...
Three freshman teams came through with good solid wins on Saturday. Dolf Samborski's '52 baseball team blasted out a 13 to 4 victory over Governor Dummer, while a stone's throw away in the Stadium the Yardling trackmen opened their spring schedule by winning a triangle meet against Boston University and Boston College, 96 1/5, 62 4/5, 14. The freshman lacrosse team traveled to Northfield to wrest a 6 to 4 win from Mount Hermon...