Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Right now, as construction goes on, the only thing still standing on Mem Hall's "island" is the stone tablet which honors Kosciuszko, the Pole who came to America in 1776 to aid in the colonies in their struggle for independence...
After the meeting, Vellucci said that he had also asked that the stone tablet be moved to Cambridge Common until mall construction is done...
...pictures are solemn brown studies. Here and there, light flashes within them like electricity inside a summer thunderhead. At first glance, they are quiet paintings of commonplace subjects-familiar faces, weather-beaten buckets, battered stone walls and boulders - with none of the candy-colored savor of pop culture or the treacle of lap dogs and firesides. Basically, An drew Wyeth paints his own backyard...
Other schools which competed were Boston College, M.I.T., Northeastern, Brown, Connecticut, and Stone Hill...
Brigitte had struggled long to reach the top, in her early student days was even expelled from a Munich art school for lack of talent. Fortunately, British Sculptor Henry Moore saw at least a spark, in 1947 admitted her to his studio for study. "I executed a madonna in stone for him, and every minute was wonderful," she recalls. After learning sculpture's basic grammar from Moore, Brigitte was ready to leave traditional materials behind, sought out the Russian-born constructivist Antoine Pevsner in Paris, put in another year of apprenticeship with...