Word: towers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wish I could tell you more, but Rob, Amy, Jeremy and Steffie will throw me off Mather tower if I don't stop asking them to supply me with jokes; Warren, Jim and Phil will put an airlock in the entrance to my room if I don't clean it up soon; Stanley and Martha will doubt my intellectual integrity if I don't cough up ten pages on Hume by the end of the week; and Lippy and Emily don't read the Crimson and therefore do not care if their names are omitted from this list. Incidentally, Harry...
...conduits awaiting assembly, lie unspoiled salt marshes. To the east one can see the shoreline where lobstermen and fishermen work and where, on any sunny day in July or August, 100,000 people may be soaking in the sun and salt water. To the south stand pine trees that tower above the ten-foot chain-link fence surrounding the buildings...
Perhaps in Hentoff we see a weathered journalist resenting ivory tower academics, or an honest liberal holding firm, or maybe just a simple personality differing with the cold scholarly writing of Bowles and Gintis. Whatever the problem, there remains a fundamental compatibility between the socialist critique of education--that inequality in education is the direct result of an economic system in which inequality is inherent--and everything Hentoff desires--abolishing socially-sanctioned violence against children in the schools and the crippling of human capabilities by forcing students "to believe they are dumb...
...caught my first sight of the Prudential Tower from the Beacon Circle in Brookline, four miles from the finish. A mile later it didn't seem any closer. But as long as I could see it, I felt all right. When, at times, it disappeared from view, I felt myself noticeably slowing down. Miles that clipped by at the beginning take an eternity at the end. Especially the last...
...Fuller for Montreal's Expo '67. But Guiding Red, Abstract Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler's biggest painting, has been rolled up in a warehouse ever since. Last week the work found a suitably grand setting: a 50-ft.-tall marble wall on the mezzanine of the south tower of Manhattan's 110-story World Trade Center. Why the title? Explains Frankenthaler: "I was guiding the red and j the red was guiding...