Word: leviathan
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Here at Harvard, the 15 or so Hemingwayesquerough riders who comprise the active membership of the Harvard Fly-Fishing Club, an organization with its own charter and constitution, have been anticipating this day with an eagerness comparable to that of Captain Ahab when he spied his albine leviathan...
...Crimson cagers hooked up with Ivy League leviathan Pennsylvania last night at the Palestra in a down to the wire donnybrook before losing...
...smaller scale becomes massive. To stay alive, Pasqualino must summon up his last reserves of cunning. In one horrible, hilarious sequence, he tries to worm his way into the good graces of the female camp commandant (Shirley Stoler) by making love to her. She is a lesbian leviathan who tolerates his attentions only because of his very desperation. She uses his appetite for life to debase him, and he allows it. He even agrees to preside over the execution of fellow prisoners. All for survival...
...Liberals conceded that while it will avert a sudden sharp rise in heating-oil and gasoline prices, it also virtually guarantees that Americans will go on using energy profligately. As for conservatives, the Wall Street Journal summed up their feelings by branding the bill a "monument to the Orwellian leviathan"; nearly every section "involves an infringement of individual rights or property rights." The controversial bill is politically palatable, but it will leave the nation far from the goal of energy self-sufficiency. Major provisions...
Perhaps it is because Heimert is so vehemently opposed to federal dictation of university affairs--he sees the government as a "leviathan" interfering where it isn't wanted--that Dean Rosovsky has appointed him head of a special faculty committee to investigate the government-university issues raised by the recent student files...