Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bejeweled beauty nibbling cocktail goodies at Düsseldorf's Breiden-bacherhof has the sun of Spain on her shoulders and the patois of Provence on her tongue. As the young executive floats around in the revolving television tower at Stuttgart, with its lofty restaurant-lounge, he gives only occasional thought to die Flucht-the flight before the Russians 18 years ago-and other hideous memories of an early era. On Berlin's Kudamm, which Christopher Isherwood would never recognize, Germans twist-and twist and twist-though they live skin-close to the Communists. In Hamburg, Max Schmeling...
...Personal Diplomacy: "This business of perambulation! Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself. I therefore give notice that I shall go on strike and sit more in the control tower-just in time to avoid visiting a foreign secretary in the moon...
...suspicion that lawyers are not as other men will be deepened rather than dispelled by Author-Lawyer Louis Auchincloss' twelve stories about Tower, Tilney & Webb, a great New York law firm. Auchincloss has become a habitual bestseller with his tales and novels (The Injustice Collectors') about the hereditary rich and the lawyers who themselves become rich by helping the rich stay that way. His current stories are about a specialized tribe within the specialized race-the grey men who deal in "green goods" (securities), and the sharpies who can reduce the tax bite to a friendly...
...characters at Tower, Tilney & Webb, from Senior Partner Clitus Tilney down to the most recent ex-editor of the Yale Law Journal, regard it as the summit of human felicity to be senior partner of Tower, Tilney & Webb. All the behavior of all the characters, even to their manner of dress and the way their hair grows (thick for the comers, sparse, long, oily or fluffy for the outsiders and no-hopers), centers on this notion. Their private life is spent among other lawyers and their wives. They move by the tropisms of power and fear in a world...
Since December, 1961, when villains made their way to the top of the building, however, the tower has been capped by a fantastic copper finial which terminates in the claw and lower portion of the leg of an Ibis. Presumably, the change was effected with some diabolical cutting tool...