Word: owl
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...book they recently co-authored and defended last night, the K-School scholars forwarded an "Owl" agenda as a compromise to the extremist "Hawk" and "Dove" camps. Hawks believe in "peace through strength," while Doves prescribe arms control and accommodation. Owls, on the other hand, think nuclear war is likely to stem from a loss of control and thus work to strengthen organizations and coordinate events to prevent such a catastrophe...
...Hawks" believe war starts because a nation is too weak, and "doves" believe it results from provocation. The "owl" agenda, however, tries to find "common ground" by considering "less the weapons themselves...than the use of the weapons and actions that can be taken to affect the probability of their use," Allison said...
...what it would be like to be Menelaus, Thersites remarks "to be an ass, were nothing, be is both ass and ox; to be an ox, were nothing, he is both ox and ass. To be a dog, a mule a cat, a finch, a toad, a lizzard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without a toe. I would not care, but to be Menelaus, I woud conspire against destiny." Scratching her head, pulling at her suit of rags and slobbering over a bottle of brew, Fasolino's Thersites is convulsive. Excellently staged by Evett, Faselino flits from audience...
...Some emblems of ferocity gave him trouble. The hero of The Hungry Lion, 1905, has a crescent of human dentures, and might be biting into a watermelon; the unhappy antelope, because of Rousseau's difficulty in drawing its head twisted at such an angle, is duckbilled; the eagle and owl, with their strips of meat, look stuffed. And yet the jungle--that lattice of leaves and fronds, each carefully turned toward the eye to display its full shape--is a majestic, formal green machine that fills its animal signs with utter conviction...
...Almost as good as owl...