Word: toweritis
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HRTV has also retooled "Ivory Tower," its long-running soap opera, into a new format. The newly christened "Tales from the Ivory Tower" will consist of short stories in a loosely organized framework...
Aara Edwards '02 is a member of an informal organization known as the Lowell House Society of Russian Bellringers. Every week, she and a core group of about five or six people show up beneath the roosting bells in the tower to rock them out of their slumber, to show newcomers the ropes and to practice the uncertain science of their playing...
...realm of music. Standing high above Harvard on an open platform and ringing the "Red Bell of Pestilence and Famine" is, Aara will tell you, an exhilarating experience. The 17 bells range from one to 13 feet in diameter, and when they are rung every beam of the tower trembles. The largest bell, the Mother Earth Bell, weighs 13 tons. It is rung at the beginning and end of each concert and it takes two people standing inside its maw to swing the giant clapper between them. The brute force of that bronze behemoth and its lesser brothers, spilling...
...Worlds" 60 years ago convinced one million people in the New York-New Jersey region that aliens had landed in nearby Grover's Mill Pond. Some of the local farmers got so carried away by the tale that they shot up the town's water tower, believing it to be an invading ship...
...people in Chicago who are intent on catching up with Kuala Lumpur I say, "Please, stop." I'm referring, of course, to the competition among cities to have the tallest building in the world. A few years ago the Malaysians erected twin towers that were 33 ft. higher than Chicago's Sears Tower, which had been the world's tallest building for more than 20 years. I realize that this was a serious provocation. A lot of Chicagoans have always been mildly offended by A.J. Liebling's description of Chicago as the Second City, after all, and even Liebling didn...