Word: towers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...live in an ivory tower...
...college green, backed by the high white tower of Baker Library, stands a huge snow sculpture of a prospector panning for gold, so tall (25 ft.) and so frozen that it had to be finished off by students climbing around with pitons and ice axes. On the hilly parts of the college golf course, assorted men of Dartmouth are cheerfully risking life and limb at a crowd-pleasing contest called the Downhill Canoe Race. The Skyway Lodge is full of schussers past and schussers yet-to-be, dates, officials, boots, parkas, day-packs, the friendly slurp of gulped hot chocolate...
Faster than a speeding bullet? Not likely, when Superman's bright blue leotard bulged from a paunch that was bound to blunt the man of steel's airstream in flight. Actually Texas Senator John Tower, 53, never did get airborne, but otherwise the conservative Republican performed nobly in a Superman spoof mounted in Dallas by a drinking club of politicians and newsmen. "I was born to play Superman," acknowledged Tower, flipping his cape for dramatic emphasis...
...year is 1941. Winston Churchill has been executed. The King, rescued from the ruins of Buckingham Palace, is imprisoned in the Tower of London. The Queen and their two daughters are in exile in Australia. Thousands of Britons have been deported to work in German factories. A puppet government is ensconced in Westminster, but the Nazis jackboot the country as roughly as they ran occupied France. In Britain, too, there is a tough Resistance movement, as well as profiteers who will provide any quo for a quid...
After sluicing down quantities of vodka, after smoking too much marijuana and producing some luminous prose, it is Crews who stands naked. In the final essay, "Climbing the Tower," he contemplates the relationship between futility, violence and creativity. "I know what it means to live in an atmosphere of perpetual failure," he admits. "Inevitably, it is out of a base of failure that we try to rise again to do another thing...