Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...absurd: with Kafka it is expressed through the feeling of alienation, with Hasek through a satiric sense of humor. Joseph Skvorecky continues the latter tradition with his novel The Tank Brigade, where the contemporary Schweik is confronted with the stupidity and absurdity of the Czech army at the height of the Stalinist era, instead of the Austrian Army of Franz Joseph...
Unfortunately, The Towering Inferno is not content to think of itself as a combination of simple moralism, abstract beauty and adventure. Instead, it tries to be a public service film, a sort of Unsafe At An, Height. The fire chief leaves us with the impression that any building higher than seven stories is liable to become a towering inferno, without taking into account all the contrary evidence--that none yet has, and that what was wrong with the Tower was its poor construction, not its design. Yet we are asked to see the charred hulk of the Tower...
...nerved NASA test pilot, whose flights on the experimental X-15 rocket plane in the early 1960s helped lay the groundwork for later Mercury and Apollo space programs; of complications of injuries suffered in 1962, when his X-15 crash-landed so severely that he lost an inch of height as his spine compressed on impact; in Lancaster, Calif...
Coach John Baker looks to Yale and Wisconsin as Radcliffe's strongest challenge in the regatta. "Wisconsin is the largest crew in terms of size and height I doubt they would spend all that money to send them here unless they had something, but we can't be sure about them because they don't race standard courses. Yale does have a better record than we do in terms of margins...
...more thing is the height of the orgy period (now copywrited) at WHRS. especially starting tonight at midnight, a 22-hour marathon called "The Agony and the Ecstasy," lecturing bands that didn't quite make it but should have. Followed immediately at 10 p.m. Friday by the Beatles Orgy...