Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PROUD TOWER, by Barbara W. Tuchman. As a sequel to her admirable The Guns of August, Historian Tuchman has again used impressive scholarship and a beguiling wit to examine the quality of the uneasy society that produced World...
Barbara Tuchman, an alumna, has contributed $150,000 in royalties from her new book, The Proud Tower, for the renovation, Laurence S. Rockefeller has contributed $150,000 which must be matched, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund has contributed another $150,000 to be matched...
...State Judge. The court is still no ivory tower-and hardly can be in a lavishly litigious state with a booming population that in 25 years has tripled to 18.6 million. In 1965 the court considered 2,553 petitions, held year-round hearings on 165 cases. This year's cases range from conscientious objection (is it an "infamous crime"?), to whether Negroes are correct in charging that California violated the 14th Amendment in 1964 by voting to permit private-property owners to refuse to sell or rent to anyone they do not wish to do business with (TIME...
...great American romance for what it was. Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, and Wild Bill Hickock sit on a raised platform (that's heaven, pardner) and from time to time offer "commercials" on "The Sixgun That Won The West," "The Indians of the Americas--A Veritable Tower of Babel," and such. The format is funny and the commercials (and their delivery) are for the most part very funny. Near the end of the play, each of the "heroes" reveals himself--Doc is a con man, Billy is a J.D., Wyatt felt it was his calling to murder...
...looks back with frank nostalgia to the "proud tower" which had been destroyed. "Its inhabitants lived, as compared to a later time, with more self-reliance, more confidence, more hope; greater magnificence, extravagance and elegance; more careless ease, more gaiety, more pleasure in each other's company and conversation, more injustice and hypocrisy, more misery and want, more sentiment including false sentiment, less sufferance of mediocrity, more dignity in work, more delight in nature, more zest...