Word: towerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that faculty contact is one of the rare excitements at the Law School, and faculty time is at a premium. To secretly institutionalize informal social contact between students and faculty, and to bestow membership on those students whose gentility will no doubt' profit them, in time, outside the ivory tower, is to taint the ivory tower with a bit too much of the real world...
...Tower of Babel, West...
...Tower of Babel, West...
HemisFair's modest size does not mean that there is not plenty of room for fun. The 43-second ride up the side of the Tower of the Americas in a glass-fronted elevator is a guaranteed belly-grabber. And from the tower's open-air observation platform, or its two levels of restaurants, one revolving at the rate of one complete turn every hour, Texas stretches out to the horizon 90 miles away...
...must consider himself. Shuman, portraying The Smurtz, is a character from a play by Leland Moss, based, as they say in the movies, on an idea by Boris Vian. While Hamlin agonizes, Shuman methodically constructs an altar to the America of puerile plastics and persuasive packaging, raising a miniature tower of cereal boxes and cleanser cans. The Smurtz Vian wrote was a sort of ambulatory picture of Dorian Grey, a silent and spongy presence who absorbed power from the gratuitous violence continually inflicted on him, an embodiment of the unrecognized depths of violence latent in a comically arch-typical family...