Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surprisingly, tobacco stems yield less tar and noxious gases than the leaves. So, said Wynder and Hoffmann, there is less risk in smoking cigarettes if finely shredded stems are left in the tobacco, or if they are made from compressed sheets of homogenized tobacco dust and stems. Finally, finer cuts of the tobacco leaf itself make a less hazardous cigarette than the coarse cuts...
...cloud hung over the agony of Budapest-part fog, part gun smoke, part dust. It muffled the thump of mortars and draped the spires of shattered cathedrals in dark, chilly folds. For miles around, the snow was black with soot. Heavy hoarfrost formed each night; and in the morning the dead in the streets glittered. Under the cloud and over the dead raged one of World War II's grimmest street battles. By the time the Red Army had cleared the city's 4,500 blocks of their stubborn German defenders, Budapest was a surrealist's nightmare...
...Movie (which lasts only twelve minutes) with a shot of a young and magnificently shaped woman sitting in profile, like Whistler's Mistress, wearing only a black garter belt. Cut. Savage Indians are next, seen slaughtering defenseless pioneers. An elephant charges furiously. Racing cars crash in clouds of dust and fire. A girl lies languidly back on a bed. Dissolve to a submerged submarine shooting a torpedo. The H-bomb goes off. Motorcycles race through mud. A biplane crashes into a lake. That famous Tacoma bridge whips in the wind and collapses. The Hindenburg bursts into flame. A ship...
...Frozen Dust. Customarily a cavalier poet, even about serious subjects, Ransom sometimes compresses feeling under a surface of grave understatement that eventually reveals, like New England reticence, the hidden vein of pure joy or grief beneath. In the small encounters that he chronicles, a clash of two points of view or a strange moment of fear is often apprehended with a sudden, minute clarity, like two specks of dust frozen in the searchlight of a morning shaft...
These ideas are not quite as controversial as the dust jacket suggests, but Woodworth should have included more detail about them, and omitted some of the trivia that fills up the rest of the book. Some trivia: a chapter cataloguing the well known abuses of music by restaurants, advertisers and radio stations, another offering unimportant comments about music in churches, and a third summarizing the trends of modern music and urging his readers to be curious about them...