Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a sellout that banks were forced to ration first-day collectors. Britain's government announced meanwhile that an acre of historic Runnymede, where Magna Carta was signed in 1215, will be given in perpetuity to the U.S. as a memorial to the late President; a simple stone plinth will be placed...
White House Aide Bill Moyers, who is a Baptist minister, replied that Johnson did not mean a memorial in concrete and stone, but perhaps a place like the prayer room installed in the Senate when he was a Senator. There the proposal died, and Johnson at least came out of it as a man on comfortable and familiar terms with...
...heard much about movies like Breath-Death, Cosmic Ray, and Stone Sonata, but now the Ford Foundation has begun pouring tuns of gold on the happy heads of the people who made them. The foundation has decided to encourage the art of film as practiced by lone stylists whose pictures are usually brief, almost always 16-mm., and sometimes comprehensible only to themselves...
...While Stone has manipulated the cramped spaces as best he can, he is more in his element with the interior decoration. Macassar ebony, solid bronze doors, parqueted floors, anodized aluminum sequins, red pile carpets, even potted palms abound (see color page). Two of the museum's nine floors are surrendered to an espresso and cocktail lounge and a 52-seat restaurant called the Gauguin Room. And since Hartford contends that a museum is "really like a church," there is a 3,500-pipe Aeolian-Skinner organ...
Wrote the boy: "The orchards are stinking ripe. The tea-colored brooks run beneath the rocks. There is sediment on the stone and no wind in the willows. Everyone is preparing to go back to school. I have no school to go back to . . . If I had left because I had to go to work or because I was sick it would not have been so bad. Leaving because you are angry and frustrated is different. It is not a good thing to do. It is bad for everyone." The frustrations seem to have been not much more than...