Word: jellyfish
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...these people left in Cambridge, refusing to drift away into maturity, writing graduate theses that never get done, waiting for the perfect job which offers all the qualities of post-revolutionary life as well as tenure. Despite their lack of spine, or rather because of it, like jellyfish, they have declined to be beaten into place in the grim division of labor that has descended on us. They are the laggard remnants of an unruly "new working class" vanguard which has long since marched stiffly and sullenly to take up positions in the new corporate order. As such they...
...Blob. 1958. Steve McQueen. A jellyfish. Quintessential. CH.5. 11:30 p.m. Color...
MONDAY: The Great Escape. 1963. Not the sequel to part three of the Leone flick. Steve McQueen and James Garner, unencumbered by jellyfish or ice-pick murderers, plot an escape from a Nazi POW camp. Flashy, but no "Grand Illusion." CH.4. 9 p.m. Color. 2 hrs. Part II Wed. same time...
...century Count Zeppelin had, in effect, laid a covered tower on its side, filled it with gas and floated off. Marconi sent a wireless message across the Atlantic. The Wright brothers flew, and off the Maine coast a boy named Bucky Fuller Tom-Swifted a rowing device-a combination jellyfish and umbrella that enabled him to pole through deep water...
...image has begun to fuzz of late, thanks to Hoover's outspoken beliefs and unwillingness to brook criticism from any quarter. He admitted that he had not even spoken to Robert Kennedy during Kennedy's last six months as Attorney General and labeled Ramsey Clark "a jellyfish" and "a softie...