Word: stones
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chanting and carrying signs reading "Stone is a Stain on Harvard," demonstrators gathered outside Mass Hall yesterday to protest the involvement of Corporation member Robert G. Stone '45 in "economic violence" against striking Appalachian coal miners...
...Stone, who has served on Harvard's primary governing body since 1975, is also a member of the board of directors of the Pittston Company, which has recently cut back health care and other benefits for its retired and disabled employees and their widows...
...sliding flats that had been developed in Italy. The confidence of his fantasies was striking, and even a costume sketch like the "fiery spirit," a torchbearer for one of his court masques, shakes its red plumage with Italianate brio. And though his inventiveness is best seen in the stone and brick of his finished buildings, one marvels at its evidence in the drawings -- the variations he would run, for instance, on designs for ceremonial doorways, now grave and severe, now bursting with free uses for acquired Italian motifs...
...some, it was just a stepping stone to greatness. For others...
...groundwater rises, it dissolves mineral salts from the soil and bedrock. Ancient buildings, many made of porous limestone, act like sponges, sucking this salty water from the ground. When the water evaporates, the salts are left behind; when this happens at the stone's surface, these crystallize into destructive white lesions...