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...hours before Caltech's Volkswagen bus limped into Cambridge. But the Caltech team had made the trip with fewer penalties. As a result, the adjusted finishing time was 210 hours and 3 minutes for Cal tech, 210 hours and 30 minutes for M.I.T. An ordinary auto spouting its noxious fumes, of course, would have made the trip in at least half the time...
...Equally noxious are Chem 20's six hour exams, median consistently 50 out of 100. On the midyear test the marks ranged from 1 to 214, out of 200. The student with the 214, one of the entranced mystics, really had a 138. But his grade became more than itself when he freaked out on a chemical conformation and entered supra-infinite space...
Endebry's stepmother is only a memory in the book. The women on stage are as monstrous if not as malodorous. But more telling than caricature are the occasional earnest portrayals of feminine psychology. None of the women is given motive or character. Their noxious insipidity if intentional is patronizing; if honestly drawn is the key to the shortcomings of Enderby...
Babe's jogging insight is thus reflected in the careful contrivances of plot elements. The dialogue is truly gifted for its dramatically effective journalism and in addition there is Babe's irresistable sense of wit, a dark and noxious poison that one sniffs for the resulting quiver...
Prudence can achieve its ends in a less dogmatic fashion by treating the creative act as a purely intellectual one, an exercise in homeopathism in which noxious vapors are conducted into the chambers of the healthy to produce in them in mild form the symptom of disease. Poetry becomes not the hallucinations of passions or wishes but the hallucination of having wishes or passions. The most awful themes can thus be considered with a grotesque and unfaltering sincerity. Observe Elise N. Rosenhaupt on the hobby-horse of the mind-body duality...