Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make an unusual night raid on Phuc Yen. The Communists filled in many of the bomb craters overnight, but U.S. planes were back the next day to chew out more. In two days, the attackers hit twelve of the until now untouchable MIGs, and wrecked the control tower, hangar and runway. By taking the wraps off Phuc Yen, the U.S. also virtually assured the exile of the North Vietnamese air force to China...
Buckley's enemies bring out the best in him. He is less interesting when he starts singing the praises of his friends such as Barry Goldwater, Senator John Tower, Everett Dirksen ("moving through the crowd like the eye of a hurricane, an oasis of calmness"), Walter Judd ("Is there anywhere a more impressive American?"). Of all of Buckley's hang-ups, two of the worst have been Moise Tshombe, whom Buckley thought the U.S. sold out, and Senator Thomas Dodd, whom Buckley thought the Senate sold short. "I, for one, announce," he inaccurately predicted, "the beginning...
...House will consist of a 21-story main building surrounded by three five-story sections. The low-rise sections will contain the dining hall, library, common rooms, and rooms for resident tutors and a few students. The bulk of Mather students will live in the 200-foot all tower...
...geometer"-the builder who lays out cities as grids. But it also reminds him that "chessboard Babylon was so depressing for Nebuchadnezzar's highland wife that he had to build her an artificial knobbly mountain-the famous 'Hanging Gardens.' " Noting that Brasilia's TV tower dominates the city while the main body of the cathedral is subterranean, Toynbee observes that "technology is the dominant element in present-day life; religion is retreating to the catacombs again...
What makes Tony Smith's work tower above that of his fellow minimalists is the fact that in many respects he is unlike them. He does not value simplicity for its own sake-nor is he a simple man. "I see my pieces," he says, "as aggressors in hostile territory. I think of them as seeds or germs that could spread growth-or disease." Into their creation has gone not only years of architectural experience-which shows in their angular construction and their house-size dimensions-but also years of frustration, of chasing chimeras, tragedy, illness and black despair...