Word: gargantuans
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...kingpin of the rich southern Laotian valleys, famed for leading a heroic resistance against the Japanese in 1945 and admired by local tribesmen both for his reputed magic powers (he wears a lukelod, or amulet, that is said to make his chest itch when danger approaches) and his gargantuan drinking and partying...
...reference to your article on pornography v. the U.S. teen-ager [May 16], I as an adolescent am revolted by the way every status-seeking parent wishes to shield us from some Gargantuan force known as sex. To wipe sex out of our lives, they will have the Herculean task of i) destroying 7$% of the advertisements seen on TV, 2) razing every bookstore, newsstand and publishing house from coast to coast, 3) bankrupting the film industry, and 4) installing blinders on every red-blooded teenager...
Rather than Haverford being "a sort of pocket Harvard," as you state, Harvard has long been a sort of gargantuan Haverford...
...Billy Graham, Perry Como, Southerners, Mother's Day, dogs ("vulgar love proletarians"), advertising ("a soggy, overripe fungus"), Guy Lombardo, Ernest Hemingway, and Harry J. Anslinger, the head of the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics. TV is in the hands of "lentilheaded sponsors' wives" and represents "some sort of gargantuan hoax," with one or two exceptions. (His own talk program, Alex in Wonderland, which is now being syndicated nationally, "is as refreshing as a breath of stale air in a vacuum.") As for people in general, they are "adenoidal baboons" caught in life's "erratically op erated sausage machine...
...first days of his visit, Khrushchev was taken to no factories, plantations or workshops, or even allowed to mingle with any real people. Instead, there were constant spectacles in the 90° heat of midday, with giggling maidens flinging hibiscus and frangipani petals on the sweating Nikita; there were gargantuan meals, with endless courses of Indonesian and Dutch delicacies (to which Khrushchev always brought his own sour black bread), and nights filled with the tinkling music of gamelan orchestras...