Word: stones
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Newport, RI (served by Greyhound), the financiers who profited from the Industrial Revolution built their summer "cottages"--giant stone mansions, most of which are now open to the public...
...rock, chalk, oatmeal, twig, sand, deep sand, flax, parchment, stone, putty, buff, dove, raffia...
Fellow student Jonathan Rix, who calls himself a "recovering cursaholic," says O'Connor's school changed his life, although he didn't make any lifelong friends there. "The curse words used to come out through a filter, but now it's like I'm passing a kidney stone." I'm wondering if O'Connor can start a school for cutting out really unappealing metaphors...
...senior fellow is Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, the chair and CEO of the Kirby Corporation. Legend has it that until recently, Stone had not spoken to an undergraduate since his own days at Harvard...
...There's something about when an idea comes up that just shouldn't be done, it's more exciting to me," says Stone. "That's probably a character flaw of ours. Sometimes it pays off huge, and sometimes it backfires." The angry public reaction to the first season's cliffhanger episode, which foreshadowed the second's sagging ratings, shocked them both. "We thought what everyone loved is that the show was a middle finger to convention. We were in a daze wondering how we could be so wrong about our own audience," says Parker. Adds Stone: "Basically, you can play...