Word: leviathan
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...Clement B. Wood Jr. '47 wrote the show, a Latin-American musical comedy, and Anthony Bonner '46 did the music. The book concerns a dictator of a petty Latin-American state who tries to make his country a United States in miniature. All he knows about the Leviathan to the north, though, is what he has learned from reading Life magazine for 26 years. This plot twist brings in a standard repertoire of North American racketeers, movie stars...
Freshman coach Harvey Love says the best system of teaching men to row is to give them individual as well as mass instruction. During the fall, the Freshmen learned to handle an oar on the Leviathan and later they began going out in the shells. This was only a general indoctrination...
...continuing bias in favor of existing institutions, but they are prepared to keep open minds with regard to changes in institutions and government. Most important, they have learned that if the conservative values of human dignity, constitutionalism and private property are to be preserved then government, the Twentieth Century Leviathan, must be used as a positive instrument, not only in general but also in particular. Further, instead of trying to preserve an eighteenth century division of functions between the national and local governments they are prepared to experiment with new arrangements. If such attitudes constitute being a 'radical," then...
...religion to birth; and, on this showing, our own Western post-Christian secular civilization might at best be a superfluous repetition of the pre-Christian Graeco-Roman one, and at worst a pernicious backsliding from the path of spiritual progress. In our Western world of today, the worship of Leviathan-the self-worship of the tribe -is a religion to which all of us pay some measure of allegiance; and this tribal religion is, of course, sheer idolatry...
...lads." While needless rule infractions set poorly with him, he takes no stock in rules for their own sake. Instead, service for everyone is the watchword. Thus books have gone out for more than twelve hours whenever possible, and many a Harvardevens resident has sat at home reading Hobbes' "Leviathan" when under the rules of the pre-McNiff era he might as well have been running for a late train...