Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Young Americans for Freedom rally in New Yok City last week and then blasted the "age of suspicion" fostered by the extreme right wing. He said that he regarded the radical demands of a YAF speaker seriously only because Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Arixz) and Sen. John Tower (R-Tex.)--"responsible office holders"--were in attendance...
...beats have not managed to set their dirty metrical feet inside the ivory tower of respectable poetic tradition. On the entirely tenable theory that a beard does not make a bard, the leading literary periodicals (Partisan Review, Kenyan Review, Hudson Review, Sewanee Review) have firmly refused to print action poetry. U.S. poetry is still unshakably dominated by the couth crowd...
...Harvard Outing Club, which has recently expanded to include hardy out door types from Radcliffe, will hold a membership meeting at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Lowell House Tower Room...
...proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation that from bottom to top it is a unit without a single dissenting line." The idea of purity so ruled his design that CBS had to buy two adjoining lots for a utility building, rather than allow the lines of the tower to be interrupted by truck entrances; supplies will be delivered to the building through a subterranean passageway...
...next year at a cost of $7,000,000. Says Hartford: "The Museum of Modern Art has managed to become the guiding light in modern painting today, an eminence I don't think it deserves. It is far too avantgarde. I want to get away from the ivory tower painters of today who are dreaming up loud-colored messes in their studios instead of going out and opening their eyes and painting what they see for other people to enjoy." Picasso is Hartford's idea of an ivory tower artist ("no communication"); his leading contender for immortality...