Word: fetid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orleans, America's most hedonistic city, the humid air last week was laden with the stench of death, the streets overlaid by a fetid crust of mud. Day after day, as the floodwaters seeped back into the Mississippi, armed police and health crews pursued the macabre task of recovering human bodies and countless animal carcasses. They shot hundreds of snakes-and two alligators -that had been swept up from the swamps and dumped into the city by Hurricane Betsy. Dozens of citizens had been bitten by stray dogs crazed by hunger and salt water...
...Washington School, left dark and without potable water by a widespread power failure, Johnson moved through a noisy, fetid hall where one group of Negroes sat on the floor eating cold pork and beans and raw carrots. He was greeted with cries of "Water! Water! Give us drinking water!" Outside, Johnson, plainly moved by their plight, told Office of Emergency Planning Director Buford Ellington: "You've got to give them some water in there." L.B.J. then asked Mayor Schiro to get every Coca-Cola, Seven-Up and Pepsi-Cola bottling plant in town to rush soft drinks...
Though White Voices sounds titillating in summary, its lustfulness, weakened by fast and frequent fadeouts, is mostly suggestiveness. The rest of the humor is fetid stuff, performed with more energy than art, ranging from gags about chamber pots to winking asides about transvestitism as a career. Voices may excite curiosity among gentlemen with a taste for camp. Jones boys will find better things...
...Rojack (like Mailer?) con- ducts his life as if it were some black experiment, he needs the battle even when life itself has almost been kicked out of him, needs the action, the booze, the orgasm--that inescapable moment--even with the fetid breath of murder and suicide and madness congealing in his nostrils. Even dizzy on the parapet, exhausted in the desert, he pushes on, tracking the devil, hunting out a more ultimate disaster; ready, even on the precipice of collapse, to go the very depths of possible experience...
...order to slip away individually, usually by roundabout paths or jungle streams. In Quinhon. where the refugees are arriving at the rate of 300 a day, the homeless receive food from Catholic chari ties and medical care from American Franciscan sisters-though disease is inevitable in the fetid shantytowns...