Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take a "rational" and "realistic" view of the world situation. Disillusioned by the failure of the dream of collective security and the shadow cast by the approach of World War II, immature minds sought to escape the harsh reality of events by retreating to a speciously "realistic" ivory tower. Beguiled by the intellectual glibness of those elders who found war to be the product of profiteering, the undergraduate concluded that all war was meaningless, that international humanitarianism was only a term for national naivete, and that only in the "glorious isolation of the American eagle" lay the hope...
Madame Chiang drove through Wellesley village; it looked "just the same-only more painted." In Tower Court dormitory, where she lived as a senior, a suite awaited her. She held an informal reception for 80 classmates of 1917, who laughed and gossiped like schoolgirls. After she had strolled over the campus, in a pair of navy blue slacks, Wellesley's president conceded: "Her slacks have ruined our anti-slacks campaign. The faculty has suddenly reversed its stand...
...five. Artist Blume studied at Manhattan's Art Students League, supported himself by running a subway newsstand, working in a jewelry factory and as a lithographer's apprentice. In 1934 his surrealistic South of Scranton, showing sailors soaring through the air under a conning tower, won first prize at the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh...
...Riverside Church. In form it was an elaborate Neo-Gothic cathedral, niched with statues of Darwin, Einstein, Emerson, Buddha, Confucius. It cost some $4,000,000 (largely donated by the Rockefellers). Today Dr. Fosdick preaches from his marble pulpit on Sunday mornings, before a microphone in his 18th-floor tower study on Sunday afternoons. His voice is carried by national hookup to one of the nation's largest radio congregations. He preaches the same kind of rationalistic, enthusiastic sermons that he has occasionally preached in the chapels near his summer home in Boothbay Harbor...
...Zealander backed away, guns still blazing. Jap soldiers with full packs poured out of the conning tower and tried frantically to unleash life rafts. Again the patrol boat rammed, sheering off one of the sub's hydroplanes. And once again-said the skipper: "This time we climbed clear over her top and rode her piggyback." They got off by giving the engines full astern...