Word: towerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sometimes cook Brian meals right up here in the room, when he's too tired to go out at night. Then we sit down on the bed and watch television for the rest of the night, or I will go down to the White Tower and bring back a few hamburgers. He's a very healthy fellow and eats a lot," said Quirm...
...literature was the Golem, a clay man made by the High Rabbi Lev Ben Bezalel of Prague in the 16th century. Animated by a slip of paper bearing the name of God, it murdered the Rabbi when he made it work on the Sabbath. The Biblical analog is the Tower of Babel, the presumptuous construction that called down God's wrath on man. But the Golem and the Tower of Babel are myths. Computers are real...
...Western social science, but at the same time deprived students of the facts to support their generalizations. China was revealed to be a modernizing state and a communist state, but the bamboo curtain clacked shut to hide the hows and whys. China experts were left to reconstruct a tower out of the cotton candy spinning out of Hong-Kong: a dribble of official publications, captured documents, refugees and personal accounts of travel in China...
...Fire Department equipment fought the blaze to the delight of dozens of onlookers. Bystanders in the Quincy yard ran from showers of glass as firemen broke out windows in D-entry stairway and tossed damaged furniture from the second story windows. The crowd hissed a resident of the Quincy tower who played "Light My Fire" on his stereo until the police...
Largely ignored by preseason prognosticators, Harvard and Penn surprised the experts and now threaten to dethrone Yale from its Ivy tower. All three teams presently share the League lead with 3-0 records...