Word: owl
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...from power was a classic example of a revolution's destroying its young. He had been Khomeini's protégé, the man who had offered the Ayatullah hospitality when he sought refuge in Paris in 1978. Khomeini, who called Banisadr "my son," thought that the owl-eyed intellectual could provide a scientific rationale for the Islamic reforms he proposed to put into effect, thus marrying the 20th and 7th centuries. Following Khomeini's triumphant return to Iran in 1979, Banisadr seemed to have the Ayatullah's full confidence. Though Banisadr was elected President with...
Theodore F. Brophy, 58. With bushy white eyebrows that give him the appearance of a wise owl, Brophy is the consummate advocate, equally at home in a courtroom and before a congressional subcommittee. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he became general counsel for General Telephone & Electronics in 1959. He rose through the ranks by negotiating the acquisition of independent telephone companies. Brophy, who chairs the Roundtable's taxation task force, has urged incentives to encourage capital formation. One of his proposals: income taxes on stock dividends that are automatically reinvested in the company should be deferred until...
...North Carolina and Orrin Hatch of Utah, both strong abortion foes, will hold hearings on a subtle legal maneuver to get around Roe vs. Wade. The hearings involve a bill known as the Human Life Statute, co-sponsored by Jesse Helms and Representative Henry Hyde. Helms, 59, is an owl-eyed New Right hero from North Carolina who is in his eighth year in the Senate. Hyde, a burly (6 ft. 3 in., 265 Ibs.) three-term Congressman from Illinois, is probably the most ardent and forceful pro-lifer in the House. Their bill is designed to take advantage...
...continues, "on the other hand, I don not advocate investing Harvard's resources in such a project." The unfortunate reality is that Third World students here can not count on a pool of affluent alumni from which to solicit funds the same way, say, the football team or the Owl Club...
Fifty years ago, Critic D.B. Wyndham Lewis compiled an anthology of hilariously (and unintentionally) bad verse entitled The Stuffed Owl. Today an enterprising editor could produce a companion Owl stuffed with bad prose. High on the list should be selections from Oriana Fallaci's nonfiction novel A Man. The title is the last instance of unmannered writing to be encountered until the reader emerges at the other end, covered with tropes...