Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emerson D is filled these days with English concentrators and dilettantes leaning forward to memorize Perry Miller's interpretations of the White Whale; Sever Hall draws about a roomful of the less dilettantish who wish to gain Kenneth Murdock's analyses of American literature to 1825; and the Coop is stocked with books by Faulkner, Twain, Hawthorne, Cooper, and the Puritan writers...
...feels that, in order to appear deserving of his position, he ought to criticize something." Having stated this definition. Author Leonard Drohan sets out to harpoon the nit of wit among civil servants and middleweight army brass at a Government bureau, a task about as difficult as shooting a whale in a swimming pool. But Drohan, who has worked in the U.S. civil service off and on since 1942, gets tangled in his unreeling novel and goes down with his quips. Spoofing government may be like spoofing Hollywood-reality is so much more preposterous than any possible fiction. What might...
...startled by Schevill's request. He is always asking colleagues to eavesdrop on sperm whales-not when the whales are puffing and blowing on the surface, but while they are submerged. Schevill wants to pin down once and for all the ancient reports that big (up to 65 ft.) sperm whales "talk" to each other beneath the surface, although they have no vocal cords. Last week's issue of the British magazine Nature carries a report by Schevill and L. Valentine Worthington, an oceanographer on the Institution's Atlantis, that produces scientific evidence to support what oldtime...
...Worthington imitated a whale, Schevill smiled beatifically. "Maybe that's one individual talking," said...
...Signal? Schevill has been fascinated by whale talk since he worked with the Navy during World War II. During his work he made tapes of underwater sounds, later tried them out on an ancient mariner from the whaling port of New Bedford. One sound always got an instantaneous response from the ex-whaler: "That's a sperm snappin' his spouter...