Word: icebox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...look at us now. We've got every weapon we ask for. We've got a scientifically laid-out camp with clear fields of fire and plenty of wire. When we ask for air support, we get it. We've even got a dispensary and an icebox. This time we've got what we need...
...trifles. Such a small thing as, for example, dinner being five minutes late, and I do mean five minutes-it is not that I am exaggerating-he would be very angry. Or if there were no butter on the table, because he hadn't brought it from the icebox, he would with great indignation ask, 'Why is there no butter?' And at the same time if I had put butter on the table he wouldn't have touched it. This is foolishness, of course. A normal person doesn't get irritated by things like that...
...single pint or two of blood that has been kept chilled to 40° F. to keep its red cells from deteriorating might do no harm. And it is usually out of the icebox long enough to warm up a little before surgery. The body can handle the difference in temperature when the volume of the transfusion is not too large. But if a surgery patient needs several pints, the shock of the frigid flood fresh from the blood bank may kill...
Horowitz's "A La Tarde Tourmalina" is a genuinely enjoyable story. The ending is a bit abrupt--an apparent icebox devours the narrator--and there isn't exactly a plot, but several incidents and patches of conversation are quite amusing. Two of the characters--a handsome, passionless perfectionist and his beautiful, passionless mistress--seem rather familiar, but the other two are engaging. The writing is generally vigorous, at times excellent...
GENERAL ELECTRIC sends the audience around the show in a revolving auditorium. Disney-made dummies extol progress (appliances division) in vignettes showing American home life in 20-year intervals from the turn of the century. Somehow the coziness of icebox and coalstove days seems more appealing than the cool splendors of the modern home filled with the latest conveniences...