Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PROUD TOWER, by Barbara Tuchman. In The Guns of August Historian Tuchman presented a perceptive and appalling analysis of the military catastrophe of 1914. In this sequel, she steps back a few years and examines with equal sharpness a luxurious and unheeding Europe as it drifted toward disaster...
...Proud Tower, Tuchman...
...Thousand Days, Schlesinger (1) 2. Kennedy, Sorensen (2) 3. Games People Play, Berne (3) 4. In Cold Blood, Capote (8) 5. A Gift of Prophecy, Montgomery (4) 6. The Proud Tower, Tuchman 7. Yes I Can, Davis and Boyar (6) 8. A Gift of Joy, Hayes...
...error of art, originating in Egypt, that only static rhythms can be its elements. For present-day perception, the most important elements of art are the kinetic rhythms." Only a year earlier, a fellow constructivist, Vladimir Tallin, had designed a Monument to the Third International, a glass and iron tower 900 ft. tall with three geometric tiers rotating according to the day, the month and the year. This technological salute to the Soviet Revolution never got off the drawing board...
...FFER, 53, a Hungarian-born Parisian, builds Erector set-like perforated grids, convex mirrors and metal latticework. He views these not as art works but rather as the medium to express his vision of "spatiodynamics." His largest work to date is his 170-ft.-tall computerized Cybernetic Tower in Belgium, which emits sounds of street noises mixed with electronic music. Other works blink, twinkle, and swathe the space around them with elusive illuminations, sometimes changing 300 times a second like whirling dervishes of light...