Word: towers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back home to New York, his regular hair stylist flipped his lid, condemning the job as "lopsided" and pointing out "there was a big hunk of hair missing on the right side." Joked he: "What would have happened if the interview had taken place in an air control tower?" Getting wind of the comments, Blanton sniffed: "It doesn't bother me a bit, when I consider the source is some New York Yankee...
...Dream should. His plentiful songs and chamber works show the soulful, reflective side of his nature. The declamatory, powerful War Requiem (1962), which deploys huge forces and intersperses liturgical Latin with antiwar poetry, is perhaps his best work. Not one to compose in a vacuum or ivory tower, Britten in 1948 joined with friends to found the Aldeburgh Festival in a little town on the bleak Suffolk coast he called home...
...universities, including his own, have drifted or swerved from general-education requirements and that students have become specialists without common denominators. One result, contends the dean, is that today's educated men and women have difficulty conversing intelligently with one another. Says he: "The world has become a Tower of Babel in which we have lost the possibility of common discourse and shared values...
Minority students within predominantly white institutions of higher learning have become the most visible people on earth. Their tower, instead of being of ivory, is of the most transparent glass. Their environment--college, university, graduate or professional school--is by its very nature isolated from the more anonymous surroundings of business or community life. The minority students' presence within these institutions is relatively new; their acceptance there is often considered "special," and their role is frequently seen as "experimental." All of this causes the minority students to be particularly subject to comparisons, evaluations, theories, prognoses, cheers and groans, condemnation...
...would have allowed firms to continue filling out certain boycott forms, but the companies would have been barred from engaging in any discriminatory action toward other U.S. firms, or from changing their business methods to support the boycott. The bill died after extensive parliamentary maneuvering by Republican Senator John Tower of Texas...