Word: towerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Could it be, Bindrim wondered, that what he calls a man's "tower of clothes" is not only a safeguard for his privacy, but also a self-imposed constraint to keep out people he fears? If sp, a man who disrobed physically might be bet ter able to disrobe emotionally...
...TOWER OF BABEL by Morris L. West. 361 pages. Morrow...
...tumbled by the incoming; day by day the protective sandbags and runway matting rise higher on bunkers. Even so, the bunkers cannot withstand direct hits. A rocket or mortar round will collapse a bunker and likely kill its occupants. The Seabees are finishing strong underground bunkers for the control-tower crew of Khe Sanh's airstrip and the evacuation hospital, rushing to complete the work before the threatened battle erupts. Meanwhile, the doctors must make do in cramped quarters: the operating room is an empty metal box used to ship mili tary goods and measuring only...
Kennan may have set your mother clucking over her New York Times Magazine with his article of January 21, "Rebels Without a Program." He quotes Woodrow Wilson extensively on the virtues of the ivory tower in education. Then he writes...
Context of Society. In order to avoid too ivory tower an approach, Northwestern gives its students practical experience covering a newsbeat for Chicago's American. Similarly, some 15 students each quarter go to Washington, where they work out of the National Press Building under the supervision of a professor in residence. The Missouri School of Journalism plans next fall to start sending students to Brussels for a semester, where they will report on EEC, Euratom and other European affairs...