Word: monstering
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Author Jones plays it both ways. Hester is clearly wrong. Her code has produced a monster of a younger son-a clean-cut all-American fanatic. Until she sees him for what he is, until she finds herself allied only to despised rednecks, Hester has been a bit of a monster herself -a moral as well as a social snob...
...disrupters were spending their dinner hours defending the action to students who asked how anyone could excuse such a vicious attack on free speech at Harvard. Three years of explanation that the University was not neutral, that it was inextricably tied to the war-making apparatus of the monster society it lived in, that it could not honestly pose as the defender of liberal values-all seemed wiped out. More students than ever seemed willing to believe that Harvard could be a sanctuary, a safe liberal harbor, unaffected by the storms of the dirty world outside...
...cries. In the end, Keneally looses a Jehovah-like flood on the outback and the Glovers, washing himself clean of his creation. But in the meantime, writing like an angel, he has forcefully raised an ancient question: What is the demon in man that so often makes him a monster to those condemned to love him-including himself...
...federal bureaucracy is a huge, slumbering monster which, through apathy, nullifies the hopes for racial justice created by the landmark civil rights legislation of the '60s. That was the gist of a report issued seven months ago by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Last week the commission announced the results of a Government-wide progress check. Said the commission chairman, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame: While much remains to be done, "the dinosaur has finally opened...
...photograph, in as great detail as the rocks and sky and shadows, is the railroad curving through, the locomotive portrait-frozen in the foreground. It made everything all right. Made it possible to call all that land Colorado Arizona Nevada instead of a hard-consonant two-headed monster. Made it all as conceivable as the land beneath the tracks in Pennsylvania Massachusetts New York. New Mexico has nothing to do with an old namesake in Europe. Rivers are water not bridges. But because we did not believe it we ignored it. What is frightening is that we ignore small natural...