Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chuckled a steel-rimmed grad student peering at a two-inch strawberry blown to twice its size by the glass of champagne it floated in. "What...
...most correspondents as it is to most of the soldiers. By now, most journalists can handle themselves fairly well in the field: they know when to duck, when to run, what to listen for, when to dig. In the cities, however, we forget about ricochets and flying glass, about the ability of an enemy to pop out of a burning shack and then disappear. If you move too slowly, you get cut off from Allied troops, and it you go too quickly, you suddenly find yourself in the middle...
...first boost in the early 1900s, when railroads realized that there was gold in the sky above their facilities. In Manhattan, the New York Central began leasing air rights over its tracks running north from Grand Central Station. Today, many of Park Avenue's most spectacular glass-and-steel office buildings occupy railroad airspace; also over the tracks is the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, which, without a basement, keeps its wine cellar on the fifth floor. The 59-story Pan Am Building, which was built five years ago with an 80-year air-rights lease that could bring the railroad...
Under Campione's leadership, the hotel chain increased its revenues by one-third, to $17.3 million, between 1961 and 1967. While new plans call for catering to the drip-dry set, CIGA will continue to coddle the upper crust. The rare cathedral glass of Venice's Danieli, which was built in the 15th century, will still be repaired by the only living artisan with the necessary know-how. Faithful customers, who range from Europe's nobility to Actor Peter Sellers, will still receive the same tender care they have learned to expect from CIGA employees. At Rome...
Listen to I Dreamed I Saw Saint Augustine: "And I dreamed I was amongst the ones that put him out to death. And I awoke in anger, so alone and terrified. I put my fingers against the glass and bowed my head and cried." Saint Augustine is a despairing Christian philosopher who tears around trying to convert the un-Christian. Dylan admires him tremendously. Not because he believes Christianity is cool or because he even necessarily believes in God. The message is that it's really important to believe in something, anything, any religion, anything meaningful enough to tell...