Children in red neckerchiefs scampering to free schools, families rationing toilet paper in dilapidated houses, pensioners enjoying free medical treatment, newspapers filled with monotonous state propaganda: all in some way bear the stamp of one man.
Electing a young and vigorous Pope who governs for an entire generation — as in the case of Karol Wojtyla, who was fifty-eight when he became John Paul II — carries a considerable risk: that of allowing a hugely important and highly diverse planetary institution to gradually bear the personal stamp of one man.
They look like bread rolls stamped with the Isle of Man triskelion and yeah I know the comparitor is almost as esoteric as the fossils in the first place.
The most successful TT rider of all, Joey Dunlop, has been recognised with a stamp issue by Isle of Man Post.
The men told investigators they tried to stamp out of the flames but couldn't.
One of the Isle of Man stamps is just a plain black silhouette of the Car, which looks a little boring until you rub it - after a few seconds, the thermochromic ink warms up and changes colour, revealing a cutaway diagram of the car.
In the words that he wrote, and in the generous manner of his writing them, I saw condensed into one moment all the thirty-seven years that Dean Gauss had then spent at Princeton years that began when Woodrow Wilson brought him there as one of the original young preceptors and saw something of the humanistic stamp that the man and the institution had put on each other.
The red-billed chough has been depicted on postage stamps of a few countries, including the Isle of Man, with four different stamps, and The Gambia, where the bird does not occur.
In the Sexual Rapport Series, 1972-76, stampedmped her street photographs of men: "Yes", "No" or "Maybe".
And if Lodge, in the context of his social and professional stamping grounds, is a new kind of man then he and Bradbury are self-evidently a new kind of don: non-Oxbridge, keen on the latest evaluative trickery – Lodge's first critical work was the formidably switched-on Language of Fiction (1966) – but fascinated by the world beyond the academic palisade.
Schubert's Great C-Major (Ninth) Symphony sounds at its conclusion like "the stamp of a foot of a man reaching for the stars".
