Word: leviathans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whales & Glands "[He is] gifted with such wondrous power and velocity in swimming as to defy all present pursuit from man," wrote Herman Melville of the finback whale. "This leviathan seems the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race." Captain Ahab and his men felt the same way, concentrated on other, slower beasts (notably the sperm whale, a species to which Moby Dick himself belonged). But today, with steam power and steel cables, the "unconquerable Cains" of the ocean, the fin and the blue whales,* are hunted vigorously-and among the most interested hunters is modern medicine...
...twilit night last week when eight bells sounded midnight aboard the British factory whaling ship Southern Venturer, breasting the sullen swells of the Antarctic Ocean, it meant "They're off!" The 1957 whaling season was officially open. All hands were ready for the first leviathan. Soon from over the leaden horizon came one of the mother ship's brood of smaller ships, towing a monstrous fin whale by its tail. Then began a mechanized dissection such as Melville did not imagine even in his most tortured dreams...
...psychosis" of McCarthyism; he railed against any tendency toward clerical bureaucracy. Though Christian Century Editor Hutchinson worked tirelessly for some sort of union between the divided denominations of Protestantism, he still found time to write a spate of books (Storm over Asia, World Revolution and Religion, The New Leviathan) and contribute to other magazines...
Died. Paul Hutchinson, 65, Methodist minister, editor (1947-55) of the Protestant weekly, Christian Century, author (Storm Over Asia, The New Leviathan); of a ruptured aorta; in Beaumont, Texas (see RELIGION...
...joys unathletic. For the tentacles of the Harvard Athletic Association have searched out high school material on which it is glutting itself, and growing. And with the passing of the losing team has come the University's loss of independence from the beak and encroaching paws of the Leviathan H.A.A...