Word: towerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SAUL STEINBERG plays with your mind. In his world, ornate vases tower over insubstantial people while gunny sacks and trash cans become city streets. His work is intimately contemporary, deliberately shirking any monumentality. With a draughtsman's feeling for line and form, a unique vision of twentieth century civilization and a not unsympathetic sense of satire, he fuses visual and psychological worlds...
Quit Talking. Only two Senators countered the critics. Texas Republican John Tower congratulated Johnson for "doing what a number of us have been saying for 2½ years - that you cannot win a war by gradual response, that the only way to achieve military victory is through massive air and sea superiority." Crusty Ohio Democrat Frank Lausche did not defend the President so much as attack Fulbright. "The only way we can reach a decision is for the Senator of Arkansas to present a resolution to the Senate," he proposed. "Until he does that, I suggest that he quit talking...
Instead, they find a Harvard College which appears to have in no way significantly departed from the Ivory Tower of the past. Only instead of an Ivory Tower, the university's protective wall is called "value-freedom." "Technology," Harvard's President explains, "cannot be used to support an opinion." Hence television is not used to broadcast a recent Vietnam teach-in. (How the dissemination of opinions differs from the dissemination of information is left unexplained, unless one assumes that the teach-in was totally devoid of any information whatsoever.) The renunciation of social obligation is the same; the harm wreaked...
Elder added that his recommendation might show students that "we haven't been sitting here in an unfeeling Ivory tower...
...companion volume of sorts is The Tower of Babel, a spy novel about Middle East tensions in the period just before the Six-Day War; it has no faults except that it is neither tense nor in any way Middle Eastern. The wily Lebanese banker, the fanatic Syrian colonel, the Israeli undercover agent and his trusty Damascan mistress all speak as if their lines had been written for them by-to pick an absurd example-a plonking Australian novelist named Morris West, author of The Shoes of the Fisherman. This is Eric Ambler territory, and no Western writer less accustomed...