Word: leviathan
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...Widener LC is the mind of Harvard, and musty Houghton its should, then Massachusetts and University Halls are the leviathan's arms-by contrast, spindly and trembling. I am supposed to be singing praises, and there is one small part of the Harvard administration that deserves nothing but I came here (like all high school students) disliking gays for, as we called them, "homes.") I leave with a profound respect for their courage, because I got to know enough to share their pain and pride. I came here avoiding preppies, and leave firm in the knowledge that there...
Napoleon [Metropolitan Center]: Abel Gance's long lost cinematic leviathan may well be the War and Peace of the screen. With four-and-a-half hours of film, a new score written and conducted by Francis Ford Coppola's father and played by a 60-piece orchestra, and a three-screen panoramic ending, it may be the biggest thing since The Seventh Seal--or may be even Edison, for crissake...
...delays and an angry feud involving the Navy and the sub's builder, the Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corp. By now the first Trident, the U.S.S. Ohio, should have logged two years with the Navy's Pacific Fleet. Instead, the state-of-the-art leviathan sits, 40% over the original budget and still not quite finished, in its builder's dock...
...Cabinet minister and third man in his party's leadership. With the post of Prime Minister in his reach, Kitchen gave a splenetically injudicious "twenty-five-minute speech and a fifteen-second interview" that blasted his career. Beached by the tides of power, the political leviathan shrank to a minnow, indulged as the darling of his party's young hotbloods. This is the lesser half of an in-depth study in remorse. As much a philanderer as a workaholic, Kitchen neglected and betrayed his wife to the point of heartbreak and death. The memory haunts...
Blount has sporadically pursued a much less successful political career. A longtime supporter of Richard Nixon, he was appointed Postmaster General in 1969 and used his business background to help convert the leviathan U.S. mail service into a nonpolitical, Government-owned corporation. In 1972 he made a quixotic attempt to unseat Alabama Senator John J. Sparkman, but garnered only 33% of the vote. Last year he was national campaign chairman for John Connally's aborted presidential...