Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shaping a new nation. He traveled 3,500 miles by plane, made twelve ex tempore speeches and 18 public appearances, showed himself to 1,000,000 people. He displayed wild impatience, touching humility, arrogance, humor, vast learning and vast interests. His remarks touched on public morals, and public manners, stone masonry, weaving, women, Communism and military history. At one point he said: "I am sorry to admit I have never been a Boy Scout." He makes up for that lack by trying to do a good deed a minute...
...made no criticism of the efficiently planned interior (which provides 60 miles of shelves, air conditioning, 665 soundproofed cubicles for individual study). Lescaze's point was simply that from the outside the new library looked like a vast stone what-is-it-a sentimental...
carved In this pure stone; but sleeping, still
...Giuliano de Medici (they were to be flanked by four figures representing the rivers of Hades, which Michelangelo never got around to). Lorenzo's tomb supports the famed outstretched figures of Dawn and Dusk, and atop Giuliano's sprawl Day and Night. Symbolizing earthly life, the stone nudes lie heavy as lead...
Sweet is my sleep, but more to be mere stone...