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While you're at Copley Square, take a minute to visit the tall buildings. The John Hancock Tower reflects the older buildings around it. The tallest building in Boston, the Hancock Tower, has a sightseeing deck and museum on its top floor...
This year, Travers says, it wasn't only Ivory Tower academicians or hot- blooded students who raised campus consciousness on important social issues or who issued clarion calls for reform...
These fledgling magazine publishers are kids trying to act cool--not masterminds propagating evil on the scale of Sodom and Gomorrah. And if the good-natured guys in Eliot would never dream of doing what they print as "entertainment," maybe folks outside the Ivory Tower will take Inside Edge with a pillar of salt...
Pearl Harbor made it clear that even the Ivory Tower was not immune to international turbulence...
Even then, Dirks says, the full import of the war didn't hit her. "It was still a bit of an ivory tower. You're there, and you're protected, and war is just one of those terrible things that happened thousands of miles away," she says. "We picked apples for the farmers and thought we were doing a lot for the war. Some of us knitted--not me, certainly...