Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classical elegance equaled by few. The church was built on the foundations of an earlier church; its facade was constructed with a triangular pediment surmounting a Romanesque window flanked by Baroque volutes. The slim neo-Romanesque belfry contained five bells and was surmounted by a lead-sheathed clock tower...
Hung up in the Ivory Tower...
...rhetoric and maneuvers last week, there was some doubt that peace on the nation's campuses could soon be imposed, either by force or reason. The university is no longer merely an ivory tower for the scholarly or only a vehicle for economic elevation. It is very much a part of the world it lives in. As long as that world is in upheaval, there will be sympathetic campus vibrations...
...sufficient to drive Lyndon Johnson from office. Still, the war does demonstrate that many scientists and scholars have not yet learned to handle their worldly roles. Some have been blinded by government research, which has transformed the nature of American universities. Yet few modern intellectuals can retreat to ivory-tower isolation. How, then, should intellectuals conduct themselves in what Physicist Max Born calls a "post-ethical" society...
...Arbat restaurant, with gypsy dancing, jugglers and magicians. Yet long lines are still a feature of Moscow life; they form daily outside the Georgian-style Aragvi restaurant and the popular Seventh Heaven, a new yet already shabby revolving restaurant 700 ft. up the 1,600-ft.-high Moscow television tower. The Bolshoi Theater is sold out weeks in advance, and outside the Moscow Circus people queue up in hopes of last-minute cancellations. No wonder the two-day weekend touched off a round of heavy drinking that alarmed officials and brought out the preacher in newspaper editors...