Word: stones
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speech addressing the Committee on University Resources (COUR) at the ARCO Forum on Saturday morning, COUR Chair Robert G. Stone Jr. '45 announced that Mrs. Loker had donated $17 million for the Harvard libraries...
...learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the body to Joseph. And he bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. --Gospel of Mark...
...whetted my interest and rocked my agnosticism." He eventually converted to Catholicism and penned what is probably the most stirring hypothetical description ever of the shroud's possible origin. "In the darkness of the Jerusalem tomb the dead body of Jesus lay, unwashed, covered in blood, on a stone slab," he wrote in his 1978 best seller The Shroud of Turin. "Suddenly there is a burst of mysterious power from it. In that instant the blood dematerializes, dissolved perhaps by the flash, while its image and that of the body becomes indelibly fused onto the cloth, preserving for posterity...
...narrow cobblestone paths girded by simple stone walls ring with the sound of mountain waters rushing through ancient canals. The scent of wood fires fills the air as villagers begin to stir. A woman dressed in traditional colorful skirts leans out to check the street. Above her, mysterious Incan ruins look back down over the valley. It is dawn, and Ollantaytambo appears the same as it has for centuries...
Julia's character, however, is independently comedic. Loud and shrill, she is always having everyone search for her glasses (once literally, but constantly figuratively), only to find that they were actually in her purse all along. Stone is thoroughly funny, assuming endearing drunkenness without lessening her character's dignity. She is complemented by the similarly aunt-like character, Alex, played by Mark Field-Marsham '99, who himself emanates a perpetual joke in the lilting updrafts of his scolding voice...