Word: spire
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Seeing the spire of Memorial Church alight, at dusk or in darkness, as I leave Mass. Hall in the evenings—that is very beautiful, especially because the Memorial Hall Tower, also alight, is in the same sight line, and both look even better with the glimmer of University Hall’s now cleaned white stone below...
...next stop was Mongla's opium museum. This was opened in 1997 by Lieut. General Khin Nyunt, Burma's despised spy chief and de facto leader, to commemorate the supposed eradication of drugs in the Mongla region. The museum resembled a temple, with a seven-tiered spire, gold-painted finials and lots of architectural twiddly bits. Inside were all the exhibits one would expect: photos of dead junkies; photos of generals wagging their chins over packets of heroin; photos of the same heroin (one assumed) going up in flames at various drug-burning ceremonies...
America has always carried on a peculiar and somewhat messy love affair with Puritanism. True, the original group of sober, brown-hatted colonists have long since slipped into the darkness of New England cemeteries and Barker Center seminars, their memories preserved only through The Crucible and the grimly authoritarian spire of Mather House. But the Puritan impulse, with its mix of overheated moralism and apocalyptic fervor, is alive and well in American politics. And the most puzzling of these latter-day Puritans emerge every election season, toting charts and graphs and public policy initiatives, all intended to prove what their...
...Spire of the First Unitarian Church wore scaffolding while workers tried...
Over half a century into the prank war, Crimson President Michael Maccoby '54 and Managing Editor George S. Abrams '54 upped the ante by presenting the bird to a member of the United Nations Russian delegation. They asked that the Ibis be placed on a spire on Moscow University, making it one of the most famous college pranks in history...