Word: foulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...green underwater plants rob the water of its oxygen, much of Lake Erie is now a "dead" sea incapable of supporting any fish life. When the algae eventually breaks off and floats to the surface, it clogs commercial fishing nets, blocks water-intake pipes and washes onto beaches, leaving foul-smelling deposits of decaying vegetation...
These happenings make no literary sense. They belong in a fashionably satiric exposition of meaninglessness, or a novel of foul disillusion of the kind written so joyously by college boys. Novelist Frame, a New Zealander who has written excellent novels (Owls Do Cry, Faces in the Water) in the past, is too fine a writer to puff up emptiness in such...
...South knows few worse pests than the tiny fire ant, an uninvited guest that came up from South America nearly 50 years ago and settled down for a long visit.The little insects bite people raising painful lumps, attack livestock, nibble crops and foul up ex pensive farm machinery with their hard earthen nest mounds. For years nothing could check their spread; massive at tacks with chemical dusts and sprays all failed. Now it looks as if the Department of Agriculture has finally found an answer to the curse of the fire ants: still smaller ants that seduce the fire ants...
Murder Most Foul. "A bunch of the boys were whooping it up . . ." begins Margaret Rutherford, auditioning for a provincial repertory company with a daffy, definitive recitation of Robert Service's Yukon ballad, The Shooting of Dan McGrew. She has no sooner finished than an actor drops dead at her feet. Though the plot has it that the poor chap was done in by poison, it appears more likely that he died of envy, for an act like Rutherford's is hard to follow...
...advantage of a higher education-are making countless sacrifices to protect the rights of the pseudo intellectuals at Iowa and Wisconsin, most of whom have probably never served, and probably never will serve, this country in a military capacity. They sit safely in their academic shell and yell "foul" at men dying to protect their right to yell...