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...Copenhagen, the harbor statue of the Little Mermaid had a Japanese flag draped at her feet and was blindfolded with an American flag; she was also impaled by a symbolic harpoon. These protests were held around the world last week in the name of peace-peace for the threatened leviathan of the deep, the sperm whale...
...Jefferson's famous wall of separation means anything, it is that neither church nor state will try to influence the power relations within the other. And not just for the sake of the state, which two centuries ago may have been more in need of protection. The modern Leviathan looks after itself quite nicely. Today and for its own protection the church ought to be circumspect about too close an embrace of political power. It jeopardizes more than certain privileges, like exemption from taxes. It jeopardizes the church's body and soul: when churches are successful at struggles...
DIED. Nathaniel Owings, 81, boisterous co-founder and senior partner of the architectural leviathan Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, who presided over more than $3 billion of construction during his 40-year career, including such prestigious and innovative design commissions as New York City's Lever House, Chicago's towering John Hancock Building, and San Francisco's Crown Zellerbach Building; of lung cancer; in Jacona...
...Year's Day offers some unsettling moments: that glimpse of the new calendar, the first chance to write 1984 in a diary or on a letter or check. Orwell spelled his title out, a practice followed in the first editions: the book had a name, like Utopia or Leviathan, not a date. But the shorthand 1984 also gained wide currency. And those four neutral integers, fused so long in the public consciousness, have acquired the shimmering, brutal power of the hieroglyph...
From Writers and Leviathan...