Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November 1936 most of the building, including one of the ugly twin towers, burned to the ground. But the North Tower remained. Recently the neighborhood began to think the Luftwaffe was using the tower as a landmark. The Supply Ministry also wanted its 840 tons of wrought and cast iron. So, one day last week, engineers packed 120 Ib. of gelignite against one side of the tower, touched it off, and watched this appendix of Victorian days topple...
...first-person. McCord is a Harvardman, a scout for a Manhattan publisher, a quadruple club man-and he writes as such. His social prerogatives as a gentleman and scholar are great. In much of his verse he is not above writing like a dandy in a Conning Tower. At his plenary best -in Mother Liquor and Yellow Chartreuse, for instance-he can speak of life as a bee might speak of its hive. He can also give masterly expression to his generally impeccable distastes, as in his Lines on Anyone's Lines along Certain Lines: Is this the shape...
Reaction is the law of life, and Norman Mailer's "The Greatest Thing in the World," the lead story in the latest issue of the Advocate, strikes a crumbling blow at the magazine's much-discussed and usually exaggerated "ivory tower." Mr. Roosevelt's characterization "underprivileged" is a euphemism when applied to A1 Groot, the protagonist of the tale. Driven by the cruel necessity of keeping his wizened little body alive, this "small, old, wrinkled boy of eighteen or nineteen" pits his wits against a gang of "sucker players" bent on taking his last grimy dollar. The reality...
Tonight, at 7:30 P.M. in the Lowell House Tower Room, the spring competition for all boards of the Progressive will be opened. Robert G. Davis, instructor in English, will discuss progressive journalism in the United States. Freshmen and Sophomores are especially invited to participate...
William Abrahams '41 climbs down from the Advocate tower long enough to make one wish he had never climbed up. His "Kingdom in the Mirror" is a fascinating poem, imaginatively phrased, on the realness of the world and our refusal to face it. For this poem itself the issue is worth reading...