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The heavy blocks of iron are placed stolidly in a spot that once hosted sophisticated classical tragedies.

American newspapers, even those with stolidly Republican-leaning editorial boards, have largely abandoned Donald Trump this election year.

The lambs dart across the page in her descriptions, while the sheep wait stolidly in a dull stupor.

I've remained stolidly cognizant of the difficulties inherent in decision-making during these trying times in our nation's history.

And let us not forget Idris Elba stolidly reminding us that, yes, black people can indeed get that 'rona.

Xiaomi topped the wearables market twice during the year with its cheap fitness trackers, and Fitbit clung on stolidly though its ups and downs.

He gazes stolidly ahead, tuning out everything, for in late stages of starvation the human body focuses every calorie simply on keeping the organs functioning.

When all else shifts and morphs, the Midwest remains stolidly simple, a Rockwell painting in which the make of the cars change, but not much else.

Staring up at the front door, Robyn had her usual stolidly neutral look, buffered against expectation; she hardly seemed excited by the prospect of seeing her mother again.

With his stolidly Soviet instincts he may be tone-deaf to the new Russian mood-music which tries to mix Orthodoxy, communism and secular geopolitical dreams in a single harmonised chant.

These organizations explicitly bill themselves as counterpoints to the older, more stolidly pro-Israel Jewish groups like AIPAC, with mission statements that are explicitly critical of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.

Though only two years older than Mr. Cooper, he reads much older; the director, Sam Gold, has restaged the action to keep him stolidly seated much of the time, like a monument.

It's all very stolidly interesting and all a little bit rote, in part because none of them—not Robert Silvers, not Vanessa Redgrave, not David Hare—are half as interesting as Didion herself.

BERLIN — Throughout the almost 11 years Chancellor Angela Merkel has been in office in Germany, her nation has been reassuringly stable in the midst of tumult throughout Europe, maintaining a steady economy and stolidly predictable politics.

The ritual of the New Year's address began in the seventies, under Leonid Brezhnev, who sat stolidly atop the Soviet hierarchy for two decades, and continued in the eighties under Mikhail Gorbachev, the architect of perestroika.

Mr. Kirchheimer's protagonists are not the graffiti writers but New York's battered, near-derelict subway cars, stolidly rolling through bombed-out Bronx neighborhoods and toward Brooklyn's beaches, past cemeteries, abandoned tenements and the acceptable graffiti of garish advertising posters.

Never mind that there is no Brexit deal that would "work" for Brexit proponents and the EU; Corbyn, who, unlike much of his party, appears to sympathize with the Brexit project, stolidly refuses to entertain the idea of a second referendum.

It's unusual in 1952, in the little town of Chatham, Massachusetts, where the women mostly seem to raise the kids, cook the food, and stolidly wait to see whether their men will make it back from their dangerous work at sea.

As I spend my lunch break stolidly working my way through a seventh straight chicken sandwich, I'm reminded of an article I saw about Tory MP Dominic Raab eating the same Pret baguette for lunch every working day of his life.

Plenty of those traveling supporters might have envisaged their team taking on Barcelona or Real Madrid, one of the aristocrats, instead of the Belgian champion — a club of stolidly proletarian mien housed in an unlovable concrete monolith of a stadium.

On Black Tuesday, often said to be the beginning of the Great Depression, New Yorkers "sat stolidly on tilted chairs in the customers' rooms of brokerage houses and watched a motion picture of waning wealth as the day's quotations moved silently across a screen," The Times reported.

Differential responses of territorial Tawny Owls Strix aluco to the hooting of neighbours and strangers. Ibis, 135(3), 300-304. Due to its rather stolidly territorial nature, the barred owl is not normally a migratory species.

There was the law, he said. Nature > had given him a sign. The squirrel, immediately upon recognizing danger, had > taken to his legs without ado. He did not stand stolidly baring his furry > belly to the missile, and die with an upward glance at the sympathetic > heavens.

He carries on stolidly with his responsibilities as the ruler of Senji during the day. The Nawab of Arcot and Dawood Khan send in (T. S. Balaiah) to meet Desingu to request Senji kingdom to pay tax. Desingu announces in agony that Senji would not bow to the Sultanate of Delhi.

"Tell him he will die before next morning," said the surgeon.Finerty, p.255-256. The surgeons worked futilely to close his stomach wound, and Chief American Horse refused morphine, preferring to clench a stick between his teeth to hide any sign of pain or emotions, and thus he bravely and stolidly died. Chief American Horse lingered until 6:00 a.m.

Sought after and admired but his processes and teachings were stringent for most beings to undertake due to his rigorous approaches and dogged regimens. He stolidly adhered to tenets of Dzogpa Chenpo methods of enlightening awareness. And he was also versed in Maha Mudra processings of liberation from "afflictions" and "obscurations" kleshas of mind. He was likely familiar with Maha Madyamika and various intellectual traditions of meditational development currenting in those Himalayan regions.

47–48 Isopescu-Grecul died in his native city in early 1938. One of his final assignments was as a delegate of the Romanian academic body in the Kingdom of Italy."'Universitatea' italiană din București", in Ilustrațiunea Română, Nr. 51, December 1938, p. 3 In an obituary piece that was published in April, Iorga recognized Isopescu-Grecul as a "good Romanian" and a "stolidly impartial" legislator, an exponent of "correct Austrian bureaucratism".

Candour is a British far-right political magazine founded by A. K. Chesterton, appearing weekly from 1953 to 1960, and in to eight to ten issues per year by 1999. The magazine displayed a "stolidly conservative" stance under the leadership of Chesterton, who feared that open racial hatred would tarnish the magazine's reputation and tried to cultivate a more respectable, conservative image.LeCras, Luke (2017). A.K. Chesterton and the Problem of British Fascism, 1915-1973. p.

After the ape is loaded onto his truck, the scientist callously pushes the man into the gorilla's grasp and stolidly watches as the beast wrings his neck. Back at his lab, Walters and his assistant Miss Strand (Fay Helm) transplant glandular material from Dorothy into Cheela. There was discussion by Miss Strand that Walters has previously grafted the glands of different animals like placing a guinea pig's glands into a rabbit and a frog's glands into a mouse.

"Thomas, Kevin (November 19, 1984). "Norris to the Rescue in 'Missing'". Los Angeles Times. Part VI, p. 2. Richard Christiansen of the Chicago Tribune gave the film 2 stars out of 4 and wrote that "Norris stolidly delivers as the strong, silent loner who cuts through government red tape to nail the villains and rescue the oppressed, and the fact that any American soldier beats the Vietnamese (shown to be slimy, sadistic brutes) may bring cheer to many people.

There are enemies on every level, from simple infantry armed with rifles, mortars or rocket launchers to machine team teams, missile batteries and tanks. Most of the opponents are stationary and stolidly fire in a single direction; however, foxholes release cannon-fodder at a constant rate. To destroy such nests or to efficiently dispatch groups of soldiers, Arnie has a limited supply of grenades. Some dead foes drop more powerful weapons as well as invaluable first aid kits and extra lives.

He was stolidly opposed by the Conservative F.E.Smith. Another piece of legislation ensued in the Coal Mines Bill regulating pay and conditions. McKenna enthusiastically supported the minimum wage bill in principle, but partly to prevent 'civil war' in the coalfields. With Asquith's approval McKenna left a Cabinet meeting, at which he was on the majority side, to attend on the King, having left behind an "admirable memo." Throughout the summer of 1912 he opposed the escalation of the naval race, occasioned by Churchill's plan to build a new Mediterranean fleet.

Vance's science fiction runs the gamut from stories written for pulps in the 1940s to multi-volume tales set in the space age. While Vance's stories have a wide variety of temporal settings, a majority of them belong to a period long after humanity has colonized other stars, culminating in the development of a region of interstellar space called the Gaean Reach. In its early phase, exhibited by the Oikumene of the Demon Princes series, this expanding, loose and pacific agglomerate has an aura of colonial adventure, commerce and exoticism. Later it becomes peace-loving and stolidly middle class.

Until then, she stubbornly had thanked only God for the work, assistance, and gifts that Smith had provided to the nuns. It is a touching moment between two strong personalities. Later that evening, as he leads the nuns in singing "Amen" once again, Smith slips out the door and, still singing the lead, the nuns' voices chiming softly behind him, takes one last look at the chapel he built. Mother Maria hears him start up his station wagon, but remains stolidly in her seat, singing along with the rest of the sisters, as Smith drives quietly off into the night.

In some of his writings he expressed cautious sympathy with free-market libertarians, and he wrote pamphlets for the Libertarian Alliance. He once claimed that "The great virtue of right-wing libertarians is that they stolidly defend freedom even in the hardest cases." Bounds's work on the history of the left has been supplemented by shorter pieces on an eclectic range of subjects, including the music of Pete Townshend, film and the paranormal. His articles, essays and reviews appeared in a range of journals and newspapers including Critique, Socialist History, Socialism and Democracy, Nature, Society and Thought, Cultural Logic, The Individual, Key Words and George Orwell Studies.

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 87% based on 160 reviews, with an average rating of 7.09/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Only the Braves impressive veteran cast and affecting fact-based story add up to a no-frills drama that's just as stolidly powerful as the real-life heroes it honors." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 72 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.

Salisbury took four wickets but was very expensive, going at more than four an over. England struggled to make up the deficit, slipping to 30/2 and 96/4, with Stewart (79) the only batsman to impress, and Ambrose (4–37) approaching his best as a bowler, demolishing the top order. Lewis and Salisbury batted stolidly for two hours for 35, but the tail couldn't wag any further, and Kenny Benjamin (4–34) finished it off without the West Indies having to bat again. Post-match, Atherton identified the bowling as a key weakness in the England side, noting the speed with which the home team scored their runs, while Richardson mischievously targeted a 5–0 series whitewash.

" Hollis Chacona of The Austin Chronicle dubbed Mulan a "winning protagonist." Likewise, the Los Angeles Times' Kenneth Turan wrote, "As a vivacious rebel who has to be true to herself no matter what, Mulan is an excellent heroine, perfect for the young female demographic the studio is most anxious to attract", additionally calling her a "more likable and resourceful role model than Pocahontas". Although largely well-liked, Mulan's characterization has drawn some mild criticism and speculation, inspiring a series of generally mixed to positive reviews from some film critics. Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman wrote, "Far more than Beauty and the Beast or the stolidly virtuous Pocahontas, Mulan showcases a girl who gets to use her wits ... a testament to the power of mind over brawn.

Whatever the reason, it makes for quite an > improvement over her previous album, No Promises, and fulfills the promise > of her charming debut, Quelqu'un M'a Dit. It is probably the best album > released by a "First Lady", but beyond that, it's a pleasant, sometimes > compelling album by a singer/songwriter with some stories to tell and a > lovely way of telling them." BBC said: > "Bruni's disc may not win her new fans in the stolidly un-French speaking > UK. But removed from the context of her very public private life, this is a > charming album." The Telegraph said: > "The Premiere Dame may have a colourful past, but her music has always been > as classically chic and subtly sexy as her Christian Dior wardrobe.

However, there are a large number of paintings in the series, including major examples, that do not fit the popular perception of the "Girlie" series. These include portraits of notable figures in the artist's life, such as his brother (Nigel at Anawhata, 1968–69), fellow artists (Colin McCahon in North Otago, 1967–68, Hocken Library, University of Otago; Don Binney at Te Henga, 1969–70, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki) and his Wellington dealer (Peter McLeavey, 1969–70, Collection of Peter McLeavey). Others have images of couples and children, both idealised and absurd (Offspring, 1969, Table Baby, 1970, and Golden Dreams, 1969, Te Manawa, Palmerston North). Track (1968, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki) is based on a photograph of the publisher – and protector of endangered Kauri forests – A.H. Reed with his daughter and grandchildren; Scott has them posing stolidly in front of an Auckland Regional Council sign and a stand of Kauri trees.

Octavia Hill: "Could not a committee be formed to inquire into the matter, and, if found necessary to devise plans of opposition, and receive funds for the purpose?" To protect the purity of Thirlmere water, Manchester Corporation set about buying up all the land in its catchment area; the price it offered was such that there was little truly local opposition to the scheme. In Keswick, the nearest town, over 90% of ratepayers signed a petition in favour (Keswick had suffered repeatedly from flooding after heavy rainfall in the Thirlmere area).letter from 'One of the Committee' published as To the south, the only town council in Westmorland (Kendal) voted to support the scheme (hoping that a supply from the aqueduct would be a cheaper solution to their water supply problems than the new waterworks which would otherwise be needed): a local paper noted that "the inhabitants of Westmorland are not much alarmed at it …so far they have stolidly refused to lose their tempers, or even waste many words over it".

The heavy blocks of iron are placed stolidly in a spot that once hosted sophisticated classical tragedies. from Economist
American newspapers, even those with stolidly Republican-leaning editorial boards, have largely abandoned Donald Trump this election year. from Economist
The lambs dart across the page in her descriptions, while the sheep wait stolidly in a dull stupor. from Vox
I've remained stolidly cognizant of the difficulties inherent in decision-making during these trying times in our nation's history. from The Hill
And let us not forget Idris Elba stolidly reminding us that, yes, black people can indeed get that 'rona. from Buzzfeed News
Xiaomi topped the wearables market twice during the year with its cheap fitness trackers, and Fitbit clung on stolidly though its ups and downs. from Mashable
He gazes stolidly ahead, tuning out everything, for in late stages of starvation the human body focuses every calorie simply on keeping the organs functioning. from The New York Times
When all else shifts and morphs, the Midwest remains stolidly simple, a Rockwell painting in which the make of the cars change, but not much else. from Vice
Staring up at the front door, Robyn had her usual stolidly neutral look, buffered against expectation; she hardly seemed excited by the prospect of seeing her mother again. from New Yorker
With his stolidly Soviet instincts he may be tone-deaf to the new Russian mood-music which tries to mix Orthodoxy, communism and secular geopolitical dreams in a single harmonised chant. from Economist
These organizations explicitly bill themselves as counterpoints to the older, more stolidly pro-Israel Jewish groups like AIPAC, with mission statements that are explicitly critical of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. from Vox
Though only two years older than Mr. Cooper, he reads much older; the director, Sam Gold, has restaged the action to keep him stolidly seated much of the time, like a monument. from The New York Times
It's all very stolidly interesting and all a little bit rote, in part because none of them—not Robert Silvers, not Vanessa Redgrave, not David Hare—are half as interesting as Didion herself. from New Republic
BERLIN — Throughout the almost 11 years Chancellor Angela Merkel has been in office in Germany, her nation has been reassuringly stable in the midst of tumult throughout Europe, maintaining a steady economy and stolidly predictable politics. from The New York Times
The ritual of the New Year's address began in the seventies, under Leonid Brezhnev, who sat stolidly atop the Soviet hierarchy for two decades, and continued in the eighties under Mikhail Gorbachev, the architect of perestroika. from New Yorker
Mr. Kirchheimer's protagonists are not the graffiti writers but New York's battered, near-derelict subway cars, stolidly rolling through bombed-out Bronx neighborhoods and toward Brooklyn's beaches, past cemeteries, abandoned tenements and the acceptable graffiti of garish advertising posters. from The New York Times
Never mind that there is no Brexit deal that would "work" for Brexit proponents and the EU; Corbyn, who, unlike much of his party, appears to sympathize with the Brexit project, stolidly refuses to entertain the idea of a second referendum. from Vox
It's unusual in 1952, in the little town of Chatham, Massachusetts, where the women mostly seem to raise the kids, cook the food, and stolidly wait to see whether their men will make it back from their dangerous work at sea. from The Verge
As I spend my lunch break stolidly working my way through a seventh straight chicken sandwich, I'm reminded of an article I saw about Tory MP Dominic Raab eating the same Pret baguette for lunch every working day of his life. from Vice
Plenty of those traveling supporters might have envisaged their team taking on Barcelona or Real Madrid, one of the aristocrats, instead of the Belgian champion — a club of stolidly proletarian mien housed in an unlovable concrete monolith of a stadium. from The New York Times
On Black Tuesday, often said to be the beginning of the Great Depression, New Yorkers "sat stolidly on tilted chairs in the customers' rooms of brokerage houses and watched a motion picture of waning wealth as the day's quotations moved silently across a screen," The Times reported. from The New York Times
Differential responses of territorial Tawny Owls Strix aluco to the hooting of neighbours and strangers. Ibis, 135(3), 300-304. Due to its rather stolidly territorial nature, the barred owl is not normally a migratory species.
There was the law, he said. Nature > had given him a sign. The squirrel, immediately upon recognizing danger, had > taken to his legs without ado. He did not stand stolidly baring his furry > belly to the missile, and die with an upward glance at the sympathetic > heavens.
He carries on stolidly with his responsibilities as the ruler of Senji during the day. The Nawab of Arcot and Dawood Khan send in (T. S. Balaiah) to meet Desingu to request Senji kingdom to pay tax. Desingu announces in agony that Senji would not bow to the Sultanate of Delhi.
"Tell him he will die before next morning," said the surgeon.Finerty, p.255-256. The surgeons worked futilely to close his stomach wound, and Chief American Horse refused morphine, preferring to clench a stick between his teeth to hide any sign of pain or emotions, and thus he bravely and stolidly died. Chief American Horse lingered until 6:00 a.m.
Sought after and admired but his processes and teachings were stringent for most beings to undertake due to his rigorous approaches and dogged regimens. He stolidly adhered to tenets of Dzogpa Chenpo methods of enlightening awareness. And he was also versed in Maha Mudra processings of liberation from "afflictions" and "obscurations" kleshas of mind. He was likely familiar with Maha Madyamika and various intellectual traditions of meditational development currenting in those Himalayan regions.
47–48 Isopescu-Grecul died in his native city in early 1938. One of his final assignments was as a delegate of the Romanian academic body in the Kingdom of Italy."'Universitatea' italiană din București", in Ilustrațiunea Română, Nr. 51, December 1938, p. 3 In an obituary piece that was published in April, Iorga recognized Isopescu-Grecul as a "good Romanian" and a "stolidly impartial" legislator, an exponent of "correct Austrian bureaucratism".
Candour is a British far-right political magazine founded by A. K. Chesterton, appearing weekly from 1953 to 1960, and in to eight to ten issues per year by 1999. The magazine displayed a "stolidly conservative" stance under the leadership of Chesterton, who feared that open racial hatred would tarnish the magazine's reputation and tried to cultivate a more respectable, conservative image.LeCras, Luke (2017). A.K. Chesterton and the Problem of British Fascism, 1915-1973. p.
After the ape is loaded onto his truck, the scientist callously pushes the man into the gorilla's grasp and stolidly watches as the beast wrings his neck. Back at his lab, Walters and his assistant Miss Strand (Fay Helm) transplant glandular material from Dorothy into Cheela. There was discussion by Miss Strand that Walters has previously grafted the glands of different animals like placing a guinea pig's glands into a rabbit and a frog's glands into a mouse.
"Thomas, Kevin (November 19, 1984). "Norris to the Rescue in 'Missing'". Los Angeles Times. Part VI, p. 2. Richard Christiansen of the Chicago Tribune gave the film 2 stars out of 4 and wrote that "Norris stolidly delivers as the strong, silent loner who cuts through government red tape to nail the villains and rescue the oppressed, and the fact that any American soldier beats the Vietnamese (shown to be slimy, sadistic brutes) may bring cheer to many people.
There are enemies on every level, from simple infantry armed with rifles, mortars or rocket launchers to machine team teams, missile batteries and tanks. Most of the opponents are stationary and stolidly fire in a single direction; however, foxholes release cannon-fodder at a constant rate. To destroy such nests or to efficiently dispatch groups of soldiers, Arnie has a limited supply of grenades. Some dead foes drop more powerful weapons as well as invaluable first aid kits and extra lives.
He was stolidly opposed by the Conservative F.E.Smith. Another piece of legislation ensued in the Coal Mines Bill regulating pay and conditions. McKenna enthusiastically supported the minimum wage bill in principle, but partly to prevent 'civil war' in the coalfields. With Asquith's approval McKenna left a Cabinet meeting, at which he was on the majority side, to attend on the King, having left behind an "admirable memo." Throughout the summer of 1912 he opposed the escalation of the naval race, occasioned by Churchill's plan to build a new Mediterranean fleet.
Vance's science fiction runs the gamut from stories written for pulps in the 1940s to multi-volume tales set in the space age. While Vance's stories have a wide variety of temporal settings, a majority of them belong to a period long after humanity has colonized other stars, culminating in the development of a region of interstellar space called the Gaean Reach. In its early phase, exhibited by the Oikumene of the Demon Princes series, this expanding, loose and pacific agglomerate has an aura of colonial adventure, commerce and exoticism. Later it becomes peace-loving and stolidly middle class.
Until then, she stubbornly had thanked only God for the work, assistance, and gifts that Smith had provided to the nuns. It is a touching moment between two strong personalities. Later that evening, as he leads the nuns in singing "Amen" once again, Smith slips out the door and, still singing the lead, the nuns' voices chiming softly behind him, takes one last look at the chapel he built. Mother Maria hears him start up his station wagon, but remains stolidly in her seat, singing along with the rest of the sisters, as Smith drives quietly off into the night.
In some of his writings he expressed cautious sympathy with free-market libertarians, and he wrote pamphlets for the Libertarian Alliance. He once claimed that "The great virtue of right-wing libertarians is that they stolidly defend freedom even in the hardest cases." Bounds's work on the history of the left has been supplemented by shorter pieces on an eclectic range of subjects, including the music of Pete Townshend, film and the paranormal. His articles, essays and reviews appeared in a range of journals and newspapers including Critique, Socialist History, Socialism and Democracy, Nature, Society and Thought, Cultural Logic, The Individual, Key Words and George Orwell Studies.
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 87% based on 160 reviews, with an average rating of 7.09/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Only the Braves impressive veteran cast and affecting fact-based story add up to a no-frills drama that's just as stolidly powerful as the real-life heroes it honors." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 72 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.
Salisbury took four wickets but was very expensive, going at more than four an over. England struggled to make up the deficit, slipping to 30/2 and 96/4, with Stewart (79) the only batsman to impress, and Ambrose (4–37) approaching his best as a bowler, demolishing the top order. Lewis and Salisbury batted stolidly for two hours for 35, but the tail couldn't wag any further, and Kenny Benjamin (4–34) finished it off without the West Indies having to bat again. Post-match, Atherton identified the bowling as a key weakness in the England side, noting the speed with which the home team scored their runs, while Richardson mischievously targeted a 5–0 series whitewash.
" Hollis Chacona of The Austin Chronicle dubbed Mulan a "winning protagonist." Likewise, the Los Angeles Times' Kenneth Turan wrote, "As a vivacious rebel who has to be true to herself no matter what, Mulan is an excellent heroine, perfect for the young female demographic the studio is most anxious to attract", additionally calling her a "more likable and resourceful role model than Pocahontas". Although largely well-liked, Mulan's characterization has drawn some mild criticism and speculation, inspiring a series of generally mixed to positive reviews from some film critics. Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman wrote, "Far more than Beauty and the Beast or the stolidly virtuous Pocahontas, Mulan showcases a girl who gets to use her wits ... a testament to the power of mind over brawn.
Whatever the reason, it makes for quite an > improvement over her previous album, No Promises, and fulfills the promise > of her charming debut, Quelqu'un M'a Dit. It is probably the best album > released by a "First Lady", but beyond that, it's a pleasant, sometimes > compelling album by a singer/songwriter with some stories to tell and a > lovely way of telling them." BBC said: > "Bruni's disc may not win her new fans in the stolidly un-French speaking > UK. But removed from the context of her very public private life, this is a > charming album." The Telegraph said: > "The Premiere Dame may have a colourful past, but her music has always been > as classically chic and subtly sexy as her Christian Dior wardrobe.
However, there are a large number of paintings in the series, including major examples, that do not fit the popular perception of the "Girlie" series. These include portraits of notable figures in the artist's life, such as his brother (Nigel at Anawhata, 1968–69), fellow artists (Colin McCahon in North Otago, 1967–68, Hocken Library, University of Otago; Don Binney at Te Henga, 1969–70, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki) and his Wellington dealer (Peter McLeavey, 1969–70, Collection of Peter McLeavey). Others have images of couples and children, both idealised and absurd (Offspring, 1969, Table Baby, 1970, and Golden Dreams, 1969, Te Manawa, Palmerston North). Track (1968, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki) is based on a photograph of the publisher – and protector of endangered Kauri forests – A.H. Reed with his daughter and grandchildren; Scott has them posing stolidly in front of an Auckland Regional Council sign and a stand of Kauri trees.
Octavia Hill: "Could not a committee be formed to inquire into the matter, and, if found necessary to devise plans of opposition, and receive funds for the purpose?" To protect the purity of Thirlmere water, Manchester Corporation set about buying up all the land in its catchment area; the price it offered was such that there was little truly local opposition to the scheme. In Keswick, the nearest town, over 90% of ratepayers signed a petition in favour (Keswick had suffered repeatedly from flooding after heavy rainfall in the Thirlmere area).letter from 'One of the Committee' published as To the south, the only town council in Westmorland (Kendal) voted to support the scheme (hoping that a supply from the aqueduct would be a cheaper solution to their water supply problems than the new waterworks which would otherwise be needed): a local paper noted that "the inhabitants of Westmorland are not much alarmed at it …so far they have stolidly refused to lose their tempers, or even waste many words over it".