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...streets; the jungle never entirely disappears. What most men fear is a lion in the soul. Women, too, perhaps, but not in the matter of rape. That is male terrain, the masculine jungle. And no man can glimpse it, even at a distance, without fury and bewilderment at his monstrous capabilities. -By Roger Rosenblatt
Critics fear that the new federal regulations go so far that they would require the maintenance of all handicapped newborns, no matter how monstrous or minimal their lives may be. "Withholding fluids or nourishment at any time is an immoral act," says U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop flatly. The new rules may thus make doctors more hesitant to take what many had considered the more humane course...
...Student Council resolution to oppose the new federal law that would deny guaranteed federal loans to those who refused to register for the draft is the product of monstrous hubris. In addition, this resolution, passed on Monday, sports several disingenuous arguments that effectively blur the issue...
...college sophomore's ear became a temporary roach motel last month when one of the monstrous vermin established residence there and had to be evicted by a doctor at St Luke's Hospital...
...physiognomy was "the exact counterpart of his mind: it had no pronounced characteristics whatever; it was simply ordinary, irresponsive, and unruffled." Mac Whirr, said Conrad, had "just enough imagination to carry him through each successive day." Yet that meager imagination became the hero of the tale, for when a monstrous storm arose at sea, and the good captain was advised by all the voices of reason to sail around and behind the trouble, he of the consistent mind responded, "A gale is a gale, and a full-powered steamship has got to face it." That he did. The ship...