Word: towers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looming mural (18 ft. by 10 ft.) by Mexican Artist Rufino Tamayo (commissioned last year in the hope that it would help eliminate anti-Mexican prejudice in Texas). Titled El Hombre, the mural shows a monolithic, foreshortened giant, his back to the viewer, growing like a strange modernistic tower into the sky. His legs, bulging with orange-colored, cubist muscles, are firmly earthbound; but his upper half reaches into the stars. Explained Artist Tamayo: "I wanted to show man as a rational being going to higher places." Dallas, by & large, was delighted. Mayor Bob Thornton grunted appreciatively: "Looks like...
...still alive, Mrs. Greenlease one night talked to him directly and requested Hall to ask Bobby two questions: What was the name of the Greenlease driver in Europe last summer? What did Bobby do his last night at home? (Answer: he built an Eiffel tower with blocks.) Hall told her he would try to get replies from Bobby, later said he could not because the boy would not "cooperate." Those in the Greenlease home, knowing something of the history of child kidnapings. feared from the first that the boy was dead. After Mrs. Green-lease's failure...
...Hutchins is not only living in an ivory tower, he has sealed himself in with ivory bricks, using ivory mortar, until he is completely isolated from the world...
Associate Dean Robert Watson '37 is scheduled to talk to undergraduates about the College's own grants: the Shaw, Knox, Tower, Flake, Sheldon, and Lionel de Jersey fellowships...
...polarized glasses. In CinemaScope closeups, the actors are so big that an average adult could stand erect in Victor Mature's ear, and its four-directional sound track often rises to a crescendo loud enough to make moviegoers feel as though they were locked in a bell tower during the Angelus. Obviously, Hollywood has finally found something louder, more colorful and breathtakingly bigger than anything likely to be seen on a home TV screen for years to come...