Word: leviathans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appointing a confessor who was a sworn enemy of Grandier, Sister Jeanne began to confide to him her symptoms of a demonic infestation that clearly indicated Grandier as the infester. Soon 16 other nuns, under the vivid suggestion of their prioress' example, found themselves with demon: here Leviathan in the center of a forehead; there, Enemy of the Virgin in the neck; Asmodeus (in Hebraic lore, king of the demons) snuggled in a groin; Concupiscence at home in the left...
...everyone appreciated young Manning's independence and way of doing things. He was fired off the famed Leviathan (nee Vaterland) after a year at cross-purposes with the captain; on one ship, the stewards tried to poison him by dumping roach powder in his coffee. Says Manning: "I was an awful son of a bitch in those days." His hands still bear the scars of knives wielded by a stowaway and what Manning calls "various obstreperous members of the crew...
Like busy tugs about a liner, two congressional committees last week were nosing about a leviathan among federal agencies, the Federal Maritime Board. In the last 15 years, the Maritime Board and its predecessor, the Maritime Commission, have spent $14.5 billion on the U.S. Merchant Marine. The spending has gone almost unnoticed by the public because, in the words of one shipper, "there are a lot more people in the U.S. interested in potatoes than in ships." How much waste or skulduggery was there in the spending? Last week...
...vocation of Chicago's Paul Hutchinson to follow and analyze the course of U.S. Protestantism. Longtime journalist, ordained minister and author (The New Leviathan), he is editor of the Christian Century, has been a member of the Century's staff for over 26 years. In the current issue of the quarterly Religion in Life, 60-year-old Methodist Hutchinson takes a sharp look at the course of U.S. Protestantism during the past half-century. What he finds may point to the future as significantly as it does to the past...
Wrote London's Time & Tide: "The British Commonwealth, which stretches into every geographical division of the world and can fire the loyalty of millions of free men of all colors and many races, is a force that can, in alliance with America, face the Russian Leviathan undaunted." Whether it would gladly follow the U.S., if the U.S. took firm and specific action against the Leviathan and the Leviathan's warmaking Chinese offspring, was another question...