Word: towers
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...sojourn in this circle began every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:45 a.m., when Quasimodo climbed the bell tower of Memorial Church and rang the Chem 20 bell. Twenty minutes later, I passed though the entrance of the first circle--coincidentally the entrance to the Science Center--and spent an hour of my valuable time copying blurred illustrations that upon later examination looked like the drunken scribblings of a dyslexic orangutang. Everyone knows that the dyslexic orangutang was never going to score above the median, and since the crafty simian had exchanged his notes for mine...
...Stadium gala and the officially licensed 350th product line--took steps to try to prevent the big blow-out from looking like Statue of Liberty II. One-hundred-and-six academic symposia were scheduled and cast with an array of stars from within and without the lvory Tower. Yet, on the whole, the symposia did not place much of anything, including Harvard itself, under any serious scrutiny...
...next time you walk in the shadow of glass and steel skyscrapers that tower over cities from Boston to Baton Rouge, mutter a little prayer of thanks--or even a curse--to Harvard's Graduate School of Design...
...Stubbins, Jr. (MAR '35). Even the controversial $52,000 Johnston Gatehouse was farmed out to a GSD grad, Graham Gund (MAR '68). In Boston, GSD buildings include the Federal Reserve Bank (Stubbins), Boston City Hall (Professors of Architecture Gerhard M. Kallmann and Noel M. McKinnell), and the John Hancock Tower (Professor of Architecture Harry N. Cobb...
...Open, so he drove the first green, a par four, and won. A monument at Rancho Park records the 12 he made on a single hole in the Los Angeles Open. That's the first one he mentions. Once in Paris, Palmer drove a ball off the Eiffel Tower and hit a bus. "Close to 400 yds.," he boasts, "mostly straight down." Another time, in Melbourne, he climbed a 20- ft. gum tree to play a backward iron shot -- a "tree-iron," as he pronounced it -- and made a bloody wonderful bogey...