Word: towers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lake the John Reed Club, religion, is being driven underground at Harvard. Forced to the damp sub-cellars of Eliot House, faith, like a frightened and desperate mongoose, flees the heights. Those who seek partial beauty in the secular ornaments of music are entitled to use the glorious Eliot Tower--granted a favored position by those who know not what they worship. Those who seek the more basic truth, shifty and apologetic, must beg a subterranean clothes-closet...
...have been a squash court is bequeathed to them only out of the ineptitude of Eliot House athletes. For shame, Eliot House! Even though I be the last in this House of Irreligion to raise my voice, I plead, I demand, that the music room of the tower be banished to the basement, that the seat of worship soar to take its place...
...very surprised to read in your April 2 issue that Henry James invented the [term] ivory tower...
...Roman Catholic schoolboy throughout the world can tell you that "ivory tower" (Turris eburnea), is one of the invocations of the Litany of the Blessed Virgin, and has been since the 16th Century...
...week of pre-invasion bombing of nearby Seine docks, bridges and warehouses by waves of Allied aircraft tore away rows of buttresses, flattened the whole southern side of the nave. Incendiaries set the tower afire and sent the bells crashing 253 feet to the floor. One huge stone column known as Pillar 58, which supports 2,000 tons of walls and roof, was blasted and bent. When the bombers were through with Rouen, the cathedral was a hollow, burnt-out shell in danger of collapsing completely...