Word: composted
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...fills in gaps in the narrative. It may legitimately provide a background, and sometimes we have to fall back on it when the imagination falters. Perhaps a novelist has a greater ability to forget than other men--he has to forget or become sterile. What he forgets is the compost of the imagination...
...company called Hercules, Inc. has plans for a remarkable plant that would gobble up anything from beer cans to tires, shred the stuff into small chunks, separate the different materials, and disgorge salable granules of glass. steel, aluminum and shredded paper. Organic wastes would be turned into a rich compost. Useless refuse would be incinerated, or "pyrolyzed"-burned in virtually airless furnaces. The state of Delaware has put up $ 1,000,000 of the plant's $10 million building cost. If the Federal Government agrees to share the rest, by next year the plant could handle 570 tons...
...meaning, personal identity and love-the sort of things the Nearings could take for granted in 1932. If they find what they are looking for, the discovery could help redeem the country. In the meantime they could do worse than heed the word from Cold Comfort Farm: Keep your compost wet. After a hard winter, even a turnip can look like a godsend...
...night. In this cave of terrified mutants, the judgments of the outside world arrive as abrasive jeers. To savage the mother, the older daughter tells her that she is known to the neighbors as "Betty the Loon." And yet, Zindel reminds us, strong, strange, beautiful flowers spring from such compost heaps. It is a troubling thought, one of the honest and intelligent values of this splendid and tormented play...
...damnest to sound like a second-rate Fitzgerald narrator, first suffered unnoticed through a freshman bull session. And although the Freshman Yard, with its predominantly WASP administration, still smacks of a snobbishly genteel Harvard, the incoming freshman can rest assured that his first struggle with the Union's compost-like tapioca will not be interrupted by quick repartee at Katherine Mansfield's expense. In fact, clever, fragmented sentences as well as comfortably postprandial discussions are both pretty rare nowadays. Grunts and arguments are more likely to predominate. The Freshman Union-with its walnut panelling; lifeless, lifesize portraits; and generally thwarted...