Word: bell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the Bell System began construction of five ground antenna stations in New York, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Massachusetts. Similar stations are already operating on an experimental basis in five cities. Calls from the ground are made by dialing the phone company, asking for the "aviation operator" in the area over which the plane is flying. Passengers in the air simply reverse the process ; the nearest base-station aviation operator can put them in touch with any phone in the country...
...over Tintoretto. In so doing. Authoress Murdoch. 42. who in real life is a philosophy professor at Oxford, has denied herself many of the props she resorted to in her earlier novels. Scrapped is the totally grotesque seduction. (Nobody tries to make love in an upturned church bell.) Gone is the really weird character. (In one book, a lady anthropologist expertly brandishes a samurai sword and refers to herself as a severed head.) Except for a knife driven through a doll's heart, one attempted suicide, a to-do over whether old Hugh Peronett should sell his beloved Tintoretto...
...University now has so many friends in the government that it will probably have to pick them off according to seniority. Archibald Cox '34, Solicitor General, is therefore an excellent candidate; his boss, Robert F. Kennedy '48, and David E. Bell of the Budget Bureau are not. Still, one can't forget John Kenneth Galbraith and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, who both protested Harvard's giving too many degrees to Republicans, and who may both be ready for the honor themselves. Whizzer became Mr. Justice White too late...
...Reminiscent of a 1941 incident in which Columbia President Nicholas Murray Butler coldly refused to let his colleagues on the board send the trustees their choice for the fiction prize: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway's controversial novel about the Spanish Civil...
...convent is set starkly on a treeless plain, but every day a bell is rung as a homing sound for wanderers "lost in the forest." Following Joan's example, all the sisters have gone erotically mad; they dance naked in their courtyard. Near the convent is a charred stake where the priest who fathered the mother superior's two children died by fire...