Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million "Astrodome" - the first covered, fully air-conditioned baseball stadium -is literally "the Eighth Wonder of the World." When he showed it off to French Ambassador Hervé Alphand, the ambassador made the mistake of remarking that the Astrodome's lattice work roof reminded him of the Eiffel Tower. Sniffed Hofheinz: "The Eiffel Tower is all right, but you can't play ball there...
...pioneer of such buildings was Manhattan's United Nations Plaza, a twin-tower 38-story building, which should be complete some time this summer. The first six floors are office space, the rest luxury cooperative apartments ranging from $25,900 for 3½ rooms to $166,000 for a nine-room duplex. Apartment owners are given options on small offices within the building, plus an exclusive key that will open the door between the segregated office and apartment lobbies...
...Angry Young Man who wrote Room at the Top, Britain's John Braine here dabbles in religious sensibility. At 30, Vincent Dungarvan is still a mother's boy, a virginal Irish schoolmaster who likes music, poetry, teaching and, best of all, to keep safely within his ivory tower and dream, "a pleasure that couldn't commit him, couldn't puzzle him, couldn't humiliate him." Vincent's Mom, who keeps his house and conscience for him, wants him to embrace the priestly life. A green-eyed Protestant offers him something better to embrace...
Watching the crowds jostling through the Met's entrance last week, Director James J. Rorimer, 59, could not repress a small sigh for the bygone days when museum corridors contained echoes rather than crocodiles of squealing children. "My ivory tower is no more," he said. In the decade of Rorimer's stewardship at the Met, annual attendance has skyrocketed from 2,830,000 to nearly 6,000,000, rising more rapidly than that of any other major U.S. museum. Over the Washington's Birthday weekend, the Met counted a record of 59,099 admissions during Sunday...
...discusses the difference between the reality of the academy, "veritas," and the more savage, yet humane, reality of life "outside." That is, he delves into the old Ivory Tower issue. This could have been very exciting, for that issue is, I feel, at the center of Mr. Epps' existence. He could have brought into relief aspects of it little explored, or even perceived, by less aware and less experienced writers. Instead, Mr. Epps has eschewed analysis and investigation for classification; he has embalmed some rather ordinary insights in the eloquent, but not quite relevant, words of Yeats and Arthur Koestler...