Word: cesspool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME to state that Sylvia Plath "adds a powerful voice to the rising chorus of American bards who practice poetry as abreaction" (aberration?) is to sanction what today is the "in" thing to dp-lift the lid off the cesspool and revel in its bad odors. Spare us the ravings of the "confessional poet": poetry is no place for psychotic self-purgation. Miss Plath is typical of those who, in the words of Poet GustaV Davidson, have "corrupted poetry by emptying it of music, magic and meaning...
...baby leopards, four macaws, several adolescent crocodiles, a parrot and three snakes in his own room. Remembers the film's producer: "The crocodiles ate the birds. The leopards ate the crocodiles. The snakes died of starvation. The room stank like the bottom of some Amazonian cesspool...
...complex, confused, and unsanitary world in which we all find ourselves it is possible to think of Harvard's plumbing as a kind of storm drain of light in a very dark cesspool, and I must confess I sometimes do just this. But I also know that the figure is not really an apt one, for Harvard's pipes and drains, praise God, have never been severed from the broad sewers of city and state and are certainly not so now. Instead, they are rather intimately involved with all the pipes and drains of Cambridge, and, indeed, of Massachusetts...
...Marshall that "McNamara has lost the confidence of the armed services" [May 31]. As young members of the Officers' Corps of the U.S. Air Force, we look upon Secretary McNamara's efforts to give some meaningful purpose to military expenditures as a refreshing breeze in an otherwise cesspool atmosphere of basic incompetence, empire building, wanton waste and a "don't rock the gravy train" attitude. Secretary McNamara's reforms have had the only really uplifting effect on officer morale in the past five years...
...hexagonal house had no foundations; it hung from a central mast, thereby minimizing the danger from earth-quakes and obviating the usual necessity to grade the site before construction could begin; it was possible to erect the Dymaxion house in less than twenty-four hours. All utilities, including cesspool, water tank, and a diesel engine to supply power, were located in a mechanical core beneath the mast, thus making it possible for a family to live totally independent of any township--and to move from place to place at will, since the dwelling could be easily carried by helicopter...