Word: whaled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that one of his friends, a vicar, had to lug all the way home to Nuremberg. Even the disease that ruined his health, malaria, was a souvenir: a mosquito bit him when he ventured into the salt marshes of Zeeland to draw yet another marvel?a dead whale...
...that, Ellsberg was laid up in Bangkok with a severe case of hepatitis. He felt that "the alternatives before me are to stay on with the Government in Viet Nam or to return home to research and consult: a choice between the engine room and the belly of the whale." The hepatitis helped him to make up his mind, and Ellsberg returned to the Rand Corp. in 1967, working basically out of the Santa Monica, Calif., office. He kept all of his top-level security clearances and remained active as a Government consultant. Ellsberg worked with Henry Kissinger?his former...
Ralph Waldo Ellison, L.H.D., novelist. He has fashioned a mighty allegory of the central conflict of our age. The terrors and exaltation of black existence in an unseeing white universe have the force and violent conviction of Melville's searing voyage in search of a phantom whale-which is everyman's ordeal...
...quarry is finally lured with tubs of whale blood off the Australian reef. In the last reel, the prep-school Ahab finally spots his béte blanche, and both drama and cinema achieve an almost hallucinatory suspense. The crew is lowered in barred aluminum cages. The sharks, at first floating like malignant dirigibles, suddenly bash the metal in rage and frustration. It is more than a cinematic high. It is a justifiable anthropomorphism, a juxtaposition of hunter and hunted that Melville, or for that matter Moby-Dick, would have savored...
Aranson hews to four grand themes: the sea. the quest, the majestic, malignant power of the white whale, and Ahab's fierce, tragic, demonic will to harpoon fate. Ahab v. the first mate Starbuck, the man of reason, forms the main line of conflict. Starbuck has signed on to hunt whales, not to pursue Ahab's monomaniacal revenge. Melville means us to know that when a man sets out to probe the secrets of the universe, he is far past reason, just as the seafaring Renaissance explorers went far past their maps...