Word: engulfment
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...Crying of Lot 49 and certainly not in his mammoth new book, Against the Day (Penguin Press; 1,085 pages). Of course this makes me not just a Pynchon reader but practically a Pynchon character, another of his comically put-upon quest figures who journey into mysteries that engulf them. Even that is part of Pynchon's grand scheme, which is to make the experience of reading his work a demonstration of his most forceful intuition, or one of them: that history is a monstrously deceptive puzzle and the world is a shower of clues, most of them false...
...pain. Then, more than ever, we are called on to maintain our courage to confront bad words with better words. That is the hallmark of a university and of our democratic society. It is also one of our central safeguards against the impulses of intolerance that always threaten to engulf our commitment to proper respect for every person...
...November elections approach, Harvard students can be assured that political fever will engulf the campus. The Harvard College Democrats (Dems) and the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) will compete to rally students to their sides, and intense partisanship will flare up. But that’s far from a bad thing—in fact it’s healthy and natural for students to express their political affiliation enthusiastically and take the initiative to support those candidates who endorse policies they support...
...wasn't fooling anyone. Gretzky is still the biggest name in hockey, and the controversy surrounding him threatens to engulf the Games in a manner similar to that of the Sal?-Pelletier figure-skating-judging scandal in Salt Lake City four years ago. According to press reports, Gretzky's wife Janet Jones bet more than $100,000 on football games through a New Jersey-based bookie ring allegedly financed by Rick Tocchet, Gretzky's assistant coach with the Phoenix Coyotes and good friend. Another report alleged that police wiretaps had caught Gretzky discussing the scandal with Tocchet. Gretzky has denied...
...press conference with Rice Saturday in Jeddah, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al Faisal backed off his Sept. 22 warning in Washington that U.S. policy in Iraq was leading the country "toward disintegration? and a civil war that could engulf the region. When a reporter asked about his grim prognosis, the Saudi prince replied that he had faith that the Arab League?s efforts to host negotiations among all Iraqi factions might avert chaos. ?My fears which I have expressed earlier are much more eased today than they were at the time that I expressed them,? Saud said softly...