Word: towers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kubacki slides a pile of notebooks, folders, papers and envelopes to the center of his neat desk in Leverett Tower. "This," he says, "is football...
...imitations of Delacroix and Rembrandt. But because Lichtenstein glorifies and celebrates the succinct essence of hamburgers, comic strips and warehouses, because he reworks Monet's Haystacks and Picasso's Bull with the slick techniques of modern graphics, he is lowered to insultable altitudes--down from the ivory tower of unintelligibility which protects most artists, thanks to the vanity of a public that does not want to be thought of as ignorant...
Last January I decided I would spend my summer vacation on the Pacific coast pursuing the California Dream. My plans were far from concrete--maybe I would take a course at Berkeley, or write poetry, or just hang out in the East Bay with may buddy Buster, listening to Tower of Power and walking the streets. On June 3, my papers finished, my exams over, I packed up my Long Island-Middle Class-California Dream and hit the road west...
...English word clock is related etymologically to, among others, the French word cloche, meaning bell. In the United States in the 19th century, as in Europe, people were called to work by a bell in a bell tower. Then a clock was hung in the tower or steeple, and its loud chimes rang out the hours. In other, drabber places, there was the factory whistle. But such devices were not possible in big noisy cities. Thus, the coordination of work could be established only if men and women were ruled directly by time; in effect, modern industrialization became possible only...
...ivory-tower thinkers, the Latin American liberation theologians developed their ideas while working among those poor. Their bitter analysis first caught wide public attention in a conference of Latin American bishops at Medellín, Colombia, in 1968 that denounced "institutionalized violence" in Latin American society. The principal architect of the unprecedented statement was a Peruvian priest named Gustavo Gutiérrez, an old friend of Camilo Torres and theological adviser at Medellín. He later wrote A Theology of Liberation (Orbis Books), the movement's most influential text...