Word: leviathans
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...also served an impatient few months as No. 2 man to West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel before joining the European Commission in 1970. A year later, Dahrendorf shook the European Establishment by calling the European Parliament a "farce" and its Brussels administration a "bureaucratic leviathan...
...complained: "In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society." The épater la bourgeoisie act gets harder every day. Each new outrage is given a price tag and immediately sold to some collector−frequently as an investment. The vast, despised leviathan−the middle class−has entirely swallowed the artist and his followers. Yet this too is an irony that Duchamp might have enjoyed. As the Philadelphia Museum visitor walks through Duchamp's striking prefigurations, it is possible to imagine, from deep inside the whale, the dry, ironic sound...
...logic said sternly, "It is only a feeling, the almost unseen end of the spectrum." Logic could not speak to her secure knowledge. The gut of the leviathan had been a teaching; she constantly repeated her heart's promise to never forget the lesson. She must say no to the joy; it must not again come so near to penetrating and filling. Then it was only a blind force, like white lightning, like the od shot. Only destruction, the apocalypse and only that...
Within a few years, Franklin, of course, consciously set out to defy that admonition. One of the remote results was this leviathan of a volume. Roosevelt literature is reaching Talmudic proportions, and the prospective reader is entitled to be skeptical. But Kenneth S. Davis is a skillful journalist, novelist, historian and biographer (Eisenhower, Stevenson, Lindbergh). What is more important, he has something...
...oceans, today's huge tankers are clumsy giants, difficult to maneuver and hazardous near shore. Starting a voyage, a typical 250,000-ton tanker may require two hours or more to reach cruising speed (approximately 16 knots). Stopping is no less difficult. Even with props reversed, the steel leviathan will frequently coast up to ten miles before coming to a dead halt. A tanker can reduce that distance to less than two miles by a tactic called "slaloming"-turning in one direction and then in the other, like a racing skier...