Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MICHAEL STONE...
Model for the new Britannia was Phillida Stone, an 18-year-old art student at Oxford whose father, Artist Reynolds Stone, was commissioned to design the new mauve, brown and blue fiver (worth $14). At a loss for a model, her father draped Phillida in a sheet, sat his daughter down with a stick in one hand to represent Britannia's spear. Her traditional olive branch was sketched in later. Some found the new design an agreeable change from the buxom figure on most other money. Other Britons thought Phillitannia "clumsily designed," "like Snow White" and "too much like...
...where 80% of all engagements are sealed by diamonds, the average engagement ring has a center stone weighing 45 points, retails...
Many thanks for assigning such a memorable but perhaps exaggerated epitaph to the stone of my endeavours in the Academy. A more accurate expression of sentiments concerning the taking up of duties in "that other place" (to which you referred as the "rival institution") would be: "Where, O Death is now they Sting...
...according to Canetti, bristles with power. The most innocent-seeming gesture recalls the primitive seizing and devouring of prey. "The hand's real glory derives from the grip," writes Canetti, "the central and most often celebrated act of power." The hard, unyielding rows of teeth resemble smoothly polished stone weapons, and in an open mouth often appear menacing. Even the way a person sits in a chair may reveal whether he is, at heart, gripping a throne or a horse or another human being.' Canetti has small patience for those who think man's basic instinct...