Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a monstrous egg half-buried in the ground, pierced by a twisted steel tower, the church itself arcs 110 ft. above a circular sanctuary in which 2,200 people, transported there by escalator, will sit on body-pampering theater seats around a pulpit that rises or lowers at the push of a button...
...where Miss Oklahoma was picked last month). Pastor Alexander proudly shows off the deeply carpeted little theater-in-the-round, now used by dramatic and ballet groups. "This is our jewel box." he explains. "But from the outside it just looks like a pimple." The concrete, 150 ft. bell tower near by will house an electronic carillon system "to match any in the world." And day and night its top will flare with a big natural-gas torch that Pastor Alexander calls "The Flame of Religious Freedom." Still in the planning stage: a youth center with swimming pool, gymnasium, tennis...
...English stage of humbug, and the English mind of cant ... As a demolition expert he has no rivals: and we are being grossly irrelevant if we ask a demolition expert, when his work is done: "But what have you created?" It is like expecting a bulldozer to build the Tower of Pisa; or condemning a bayonet for not being a plough. Shaw's genius was for intellectual slum-clearance, not for town planning . . . If Chaucer is the father of English literature, Shaw is the spinster aunt. By this I do not mean to imply that he was sexless...
...week's end Kurt was doing much better than his predecessors. Helen had told Gil about the kiss in the tower...
Weekending at the palatial estate of suave, cynical Kurt Bonine, lovely Helen Trent had a shocking experience. How could she ever forget that hour when she was trapped alone with Kurt in the tower...