Word: gargantuans
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Wrote Fertig: ". . . This advertisement was illustrated by a Gargantuan, vicious-looking creature, dressed in formal coat, silk hat, wing collar and white vest adorned by a huge gold chain . . . supposed to represent 'old line management.' It is a replica of the stock character employed by Communists to represent Capital. ... It tells the American public that everyone who manages our railroads (and, by association of ideas, all owners of capital) is cruel, lazy and indecent ... pariahs feeding off the poor laboring man. Such a concept, as it gains ground in the mass mind, allows for no exceptions. Ironically enough...
...reading into her offstage life some of Joan's ethical dilemmas. While this plot frame is not palpitatingly new, Anderson constructs within it some striking situations. We have here, then, a morality play, and just so you'll be sure to get his point, Anderson drives it home with gargantuan strokes of his ideological sledgehammer. Nothing political, of course: mainly a muddy discussion of ends, means, and ought-we-to-do-its that would scarcely tax the reflective powers of a Cambridge High junior. The point--that, like Joan, we may have to make small, bitter concessions in serving...
...great middle European giants of the symphony was Gustav Mahler, a Bohemian Jew who lived most of his life in Vienna. Like Richard Wagner, whom he worshipped musically, Mahler was a complicated introvert. He made his living by conducting other men's operas. His own, seldom-played, gargantuan (90-minute) scores are full of funeral marches, Dante-like infernos and heavenly serenities...
...evening over, jovial, gargantuan (225-lb.) Tenor Melchior and his pocket-sized (110-lb.) wife, Maria ("Kleinchen") took 85 guests to the Swedish Three Crowns restaurant, drank aquavit (Scandinavian 88-proof potato liquor) and beer chasers. Said he: "Now I can take a deep breath and start life again...
Honduras. Democratic ferment also bubbled in Honduras last week, where Gargantuan, 69-year-old Tiburcio Carias Andino, Dictator-President since 1933, raised the state of siege prevailing almost from the day he took office. He liberated 300 political prisoners, sought a stooge to serve out his term (till...