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...witnesses with evening gestures In a menacing place where ten were prohibited Many others were found missing in colossal purples And numerous raided halls. Martian Doctors recommend a low-cost global enema To divert the hot civet wave now tending To swamp nine thousand acres of Mozambique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry: Combatting Society With Surrealism | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...mind. They have always known that some animals are nicer than others. So it is with anthologies; they are compiled for those who have been taught to be kind to writers but are nervous as to whether they will be rewarded with a snarl or a civet effluvium in return for the proffered peanut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Concern for Truth | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...they are Centaurs, Though women all above. But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends'. There's Hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit, Burning, scalding, stench, consumption, fie, fie, fie! Pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STAGE: To Man From Mankind's Heart | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...waters rose, hills became islands crowded with panicky beasts. In the topmost branches of submerging trees, baboons and monkeys clung like lumpy brown fruit. Snakes swam blindly in circles. Guinea fowl, who are inept flyers, paddled around vainly like ineffectual ducks. Civet cats, porcupines, ant bears, rabbits, wart hogs, lizards, boomslangs, and many bushbucks of many types crowded together on bald hilltops. During the day the equatorial sun beat down mercilessly, and birds of prey swooped in for unprecedented feasts. There are few baby monkeys or baboons-most have been eaten, some by their own species. The desperate monkeys gnaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AFRICA: Operation Noah | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...Chanel No. 5, not all the smells that waft up to the Great Nose are pleasant. To "fix" the perfume by uniting other ingredients, perfumers use such sour or fetid-smelling substances as musk, castoreum (made from beavers' testicles), ambergris (a secretion in the sperm whale intestine), and civet glands. Explains Beaux: "Pepper and salt don't taste pleasantly when taken alone, but they enhance the taste of a dish." Beaux gives each essence the nose test because some scents will last after a week of exposure, while others, for some unknown reason, will last only a few7...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: King of Perfume | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

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