Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...common than the initials they use. They both combine passionate beliefs with personal flair; neither is an original thinker and neither is an original stylist, yet each has risen far above others who profess similar beliefs in somewhat the same manner. As Gold water is a cut above John Tower and H.R. Gross, so Graham seems far removed from Oral Roberts and the other nameless faith-healing Protestant evengelists...
...spanking new Paris Cinema, with its drunken murals of Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe, with its little attendant in gendarme costume (a la Jack Lemmon) who welcomes all with a sheepish "bon soir," with its rotund manager exuding continental pleasantries in Maurice Chevalier tones as he hustles customers to their upholstered seats, really put me in the mood for Billy Liar...
...sponsorship of lecture series at 86 colleges. His father, Frederick W. Beinecke, 76, has gathered a vast library on the American West, and Uncle Edwin has the world's best collection of Robert Louis Stevenson manuscripts. But Bill Beinecke's office at S. & H. is no ivory tower. The firm last year increased its sales to some $325 million and expanded aggressively into Britain. Last week it announced the acquisition of a travel agency to plan the trips that salesmen and housewives purchase with S. & H. stamps...
...structure will be strictly nondenominational. Nevertheless, there are upwards of fifty significant sects in the United States holding somewhat heterogeneous concepts of Supreme Being. One trembles in the face of such diversity. Historically, it has given rise to knotty complications. Washington seems an improper site for a contemporary Tower of Babel...
...canvas of Quentin's mind upon which polychrome memories are superimposed ("How few the days are that hold the mind in place--like a tapestry hanging on four or five hooks"). Hanging overhead, and lit from time to time, is a panel on which is depicted the barbed-wire tower of a German concentration camp--the panel also resembling a coat-of-arms bearing the tangled skeins of Quentin's thoughts...