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...bent toward tragedy, it is pleasant to note that Agee's last letter was one in which he was able to extract an amiable fantasy from the world of caged, frustrated animals. The letter is in the form of a draft for a film script about circus elephants. They are taught to dance by Choreographer George Balanchine but are shamed by being made huge fools of. "Later that night the wisest of them, extending his trunk, licks up a dying cigar butt, and drops it in fresh straw. All 36 elephants die in the fire. Their huge souls, light...
There is not a single unintelligible sentence in all fifteen chapters, except those intentionally quoted from other sources. Again and again Mound myself underlining sentences that were especially felicitous or colorful in phrasing; and one could extract quite a collection of aphorisms and epigrams. The writing is always fresh and often witty; it is never stuffy or flippant. And one can only assume that these words describe the author himself...
Homogenized, pasteurized, refrigerated, U.S. milk is an eminently safe beverage. But U.S. laboratories are hard at work trying to make it even safer. In a cold war world, scientists must somehow learn how to extract the radioactive strontium 90 that is showered down on pasture grass from atmospheric nuclear tests. At present, U.S. cows do not take in enough strontium to make their milk dangerous, but testing may well continue; the problem may well get worse...
...sodium chlorides that are naturally present in milk. If the milk contains strontium 90 atoms, they pick up positive electric charges from a current flowing through the solution. Then they slip through the membrane and lose themselves in the harmless salts. Dr. Gregor thinks that his process can extract 90% of the strontium 90 from milk at the cost of about ½? per quart. Annual cost of keeping U.S. milk reasonably safe: $230 million...
...depth, veined with the spilled blood of successive owners-the Indians, the Spanish, the French for a moment in time, then the Anglo-Saxons, "roaring with Protestant scripture and boiled whisky, changing the face of the earth: felling a tree which took 200 years to grow, in order to extract from it a bear or a capful of wild honey...