Word: tower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...although there would be a separate table for the tutorial staff, they would be expected to dine with the students much of the time. Architect's drawings of the sprawling Dunster and the imposing Lowell, were published, and discussion immediately raged regarding the aesthetic quality of the towers atop each of the Houses. The Lowell tower was generally approved, but the Italian Renaisance quality of the Dunster spire was frowned upon by many in the College. Boston architect William Aldrich poo-pooed this unenlightened criticism, asserting that Lowell and Dunster "will be by far the best buildings architecturally...
...Faulkner, his stay in an ivory tower 'at Charlottesville was a pleasant interlude. He spent hours playing with his 13-month-old grandson Paul Summers (his daughter Jill is married to a third-year law student at the university). He also toured nearby Civil War battlefields in a battered station wagon. He and his wife lived in a Georgian house just a 15-minute walk from the rolling campus that Thomas Jefferson picked for the university he designed and started to build. Normally shy, Faulkner delighted school officials by accepting outside speaking invitations...
...Culp's Hill, a key point of the Union defenses, Monty led Ike 70 feet up an observation tower (puffed Ike's physician, Major General Howard Snyder, who trailed them: "They're giving my patient a workout. He'll probably be criticized by the doctors"). Together the old soldiers studied rolling terrain to the northeast where Confederate Cavalryman Jeb Stuart maneuvered (on the way down from Carlisle) ineffectually while the battle raged. "Lee was let down by Stuart," said Ike in disapproval. "What beat Stuart was his love of headlines." Montgomery was visibly unimpressed by Confederate...
...artists in residence, another suggestion made by the Overseers, was acclaimed nationally as a sound idea. This would not only enrich Harvard's art program but would inaugurate a valuable attitude toward the artist, viewing him as an articulate intellectual rather than an artisan in his own ivory tower...
...Dudley tower, however, has no relation to Georgian aesthetics, but represents one final last gasp of the dying radio industry. WHRB began tests of FM broadcasting last night, and orgies are scheduled to begin in ten days at 107.1 on frequency modulated dial...