Word: typhoonous
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Today Conrad has replaced Victor Hugo. A similar survey of contemporary writers would turn up many of the master's titles: An Outcast of the Islands, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and his greatest story, Heart of Darkness. His ominous Slavic intensity and his understated English produced a prose style that generations have found intoxicating. Countless youths acquired their first sense of literary power in such passages as "When an opportunity offered at last to meet my predecessor, the grass growing through his ribs was tall enough to hide his bones...
...near-typhoon winds and 40-degree temperatures to this tableau and it becomes clear the Harvard golf team was not out for a stroll in the park...
...tree referred to a celebrated comparison made by Premier Raymond Barre, who had likened his efforts to boost the French economy to nurturing a tree. "Obstinately but durably, the tree grows little by little," Barre assured French voters. On the other hand, Socialism and Communism blow in like a "typhoon," wreaking havoc in the whole forest...
According to the polls, however. many Frenchmen regard a leftist victory in the March parliamentary elections as a welcome breath of spring rather than a fearful typhoon. A survey appearing in the newsmagazine Le Point this week shows that 52% of the electorate would vote for the leftist parties as against 44% for the center-right. One top Gaullist leader even believes that the left might well reach 55% by election time. If that happens, Socialist Leader Francois Mitterrand would almost certainly become Premier-and France would face the possibility of having Communists in Cabinet posts for the first time...
...sent staff member Janet Selcer to Washington to testify before the Senate Banking Committee in hearings on affirmative action in August, 1976. In the end, the committee agreed with Sen. William Proxmire (D.-Wisc.): "The Treasury program is about as effective as a butterfly's hiccup in a typhoon...