Word: gargantuans
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...culmination of Kissinger's undergraduate work was a gargantuan 350-page thesis on the work of Spengler, Toynbec, and Kant. Unpretentiously titled "The Meaning of History," its only lasting impact seems to have been that it spurred the Government Department to impose a 150-page limit on the length of senior theses. But it was good enough to be graded summa -a rare thing in those days-and contained some fruitful insights into Kissinger's mind. In a section devoted to Spengler, he wrote that "Instinct is no guide to political conduct. Effective leadership is always forced-whatever its motives...
Four of 233. "To someone who has never been in Saigon, these obstacles may seem small," reports TIME Bureau Chief Jonathan Larsen. "In fact, they are gargantuan." In the company-town atmosphere of Viet Nam, the military has a near monopoly on most efficient forms of communication. Without military mail privileges, for example, a lawyer in Saigon who writes to his client upcountry can figure that his letter will be routed to the soldier's APO number in San Francisco. The letter will reach the soldier-perhaps a month later...
...show is vaguely disconcerting. Broadway has been sick for a while now, and Nanette's backers probably have dollar signs painted on their teeth. But perhaps it is worth it. Perhaps the glint in a septuagenarian eye, a glint meaning, "We do have it in us," justifies the gargantuan cosmic folly of putting on an expensive, frivolous revival. If it doesn't, then Broadway is sicker than it thinks...
Mather House is the future. Stone cold, fluorescent, angular, it juts into our eyes like a stiletto from the next century. Its proportions are so gargantuan that even an unwilling observer is thrown into the role of a tiny mannequin in an architect's scale model. The low-rise section has the sinuousness and personality of a granite python, and the tower rises mute like an Aztec altar. Some people claim that architecture like this requires a new grammar of response; I think instead that Mather House almost demands that we abandon our way of seeing...
...during those years that Unruh earned an unsavory public reputation as an arrogant political schemer. First there was his image: he favored electric-blue suits and fat cigars and carried as much as 290 Ibs. on his 5-ft. 9-in. frame. He wolfed down gargantuan meals and gulped down Scotch, haughtily killed bills, demanded favors from lobbyists, made or broke political careers with a word. One night in 1963, he invoked an obscure parliamentary procedure to have the Republican assemblymen opposing him on a bill locked up for nearly 23 hours in the assembly chambers. His last name (pronounced...