Word: towers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to fit in with my roommates. I drank and played hard. My desire to belong at The Crimson drove me to view my work there as career-oriented and as if nothing else mattered. The diversity promised to every incoming freshman existed from the outside of the "Ivory Tower" but not from within. Not for me anyway...
Those who spend their lives dealing with the everyday problems in the nation's schools are often wary of those who theorize solutions from the Ivory Tower...
...they have for a decade, the international wealthy favor New York City for its comparative safety and social sass. Opulent European boutiques like Celine for French fashions, $1 million-plus apartments like those in the new Museum Tower, and luxury hotels like the Plaza Athenee, which are run for, and often by, the newcomers, continue to blossom in Manhattan. Owners of New York's most fashionable restaurants say that the arrives are influencing American dining habits with their Continental nonchalance. They give a cursory glance at the bottom line on the bill, and seldom practice power lunching and power tripping...
Voices that once the Tower of Babel knew...
...fifth of the way into his 13th and best mystery novel, Robert B. Parker explicitly acknowledges what he is up to: he seeks to re-create, in contemporary context, the medieval quest. In A Catskill Eagle, his hard-boiled detective, Spenser, vows to rescue a maiden imprisoned in a tower. But the modern world, with its complexities ranging from feminism to the military- industrial complex, has all but nullified the chance for such straightforward valor. The "maiden" is Spenser's estranged girlfriend, Susan Silverman; her supposed captor is Spenser's rival for her love; her disappearance may in fact...