Word: toweritis
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...anyone who’s in a transition phase can feel overwhelmed,” she says. “They’re here for four years to be students....Making career decisions along the way can sort of just be the piece that topples the whole tower...
...many years, the pealing of the bell in the Memorial Church tower was the lone, solemn sound signifying completion of the rites of Harvard’s Commencement exercises. Strangely enough, I miss those days...
...composer, there’s nothing like using one’s art in the service of one’s community,” he says. “It’s not ivory tower at all, it’s trying to contribute something to this community of observance...
...images of the hurricane that O’Neil captured with his camera, one in particular stands out in his mind. “[The local station] WBZ T.V. tower, which was blown over and lay stretched along the banks of the Charles River, was probably the most visible casualty of Hurricane Carol,” he says...
This is the big-city version of Gymboree, the international kiddie-fitness franchise, and if you didn't know you were in the windowless basement of an apartment tower on the Upper East Side, the mango-sherbet walls, brightly colored play equipment and fuzzy purple apes and orange- pink-and-green spiders suspended from the ceiling could just as easily be in any small town or suburban strip mall...