Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...follow each poet's vision, the music seemed to have little vision of its own, but it was skillfully scored. It evoked a lusty boo or two along with the applause in usually well-mannered Carnegie Hall. ¶Ernst Krenek's one-act opera. The Bell Tower, was premiered at the University of Illinois' Festival of Contemporary Arts, proved to be a stark, tight, declamatory work with a plot revolving about the dark deeds of a diabolical bell caster, Banna-donna. The score by Vienna-born Composer Krenek, 56, impressed critics with its taut musical line...
...took off smoothly from the Cebu airport and into the moon-bright Philippine night. It was 1:17 a.m., and the plane radioed the tower at Malacanan Palace to have President Ramon Magsaysay's car at Manila's Nichols Field at 3:15 a.m. Then there was only silence. Two hours later, when the plane failed to arrive, the silence became ominous. By dawn, Philippine naval vessels and air-force planes, later joined by the U.S. Air Force, were scouring the lovely inland sea between Cebu and Manila. By radio and whisper, the news spread: the Philippines...
...such arguments, Publisher Hugh Wagnon of Pocatello's Idaho State Journal retorts: "Ivory Tower." Although he draws the line at serving as publicity chairman, Wagnon is glad to work in other posts for service and civic groups. "I believe," he argues, "that only by working with people, can [an editor] obtain that intimate, firsthand knowledge that makes for accurate reporting, and editorial comment and criticism that is easy, natural and fair." Wagnon admits that the community-conscious reporter gets his sympathies involved with his projects, but concludes: "But you become a first-class citizen instead of a second-class...
Eliot's emphasis on individual initiative and achievements has mistakenly created the impression in the minds of a few inhabitants of the other Houses that it is some sort of exclusive Ivory Tower on the Charles...
...simplicity and expectability of nearly everything soon becomes a pleasant, quiet part of Wee Geordie's world. Geordie is painfully tiny as a bright young lad. He enrolls in Mr. Samson's Home Bodybuilding Course. When next seen, at the age of twenty-one, he is a well-built tower, about six and one-half feet high. He wins the hammer throw in the Olympics, and then promptly renounces athletics to return to his highland lass, and to resume the idyllic life as the Laird's head gamekeeper, in the glen...