Word: odore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter, like the faculty meetings that I had the misfortune to attend during my last two years, exhibits unmistakably the symptoms of Brave New Harvard's disease: the replacement of social Brahminism by moral Brahminism-a somewhat more democratic substitution, to be sure, but having about it the acrid odor of political inquisition with which I grew famiilar in Adams House after...
...decay for years; the extract of the ayahuasca vine was especially prized for producing visions that, Córdova-Rios says, actually enhance human intelligence. After many adventures-hunting, harvesting rubber, procuring arms for the tribe-Córdova-Rios eventually tired of the Indians' pettiness and "musky odor." He escaped to civilization, where he became renowned as a great healer...
This is merely the cream of the evening's deadly jests. The play moves like a venomous centipede through rape, incest, fratricide, adultery and bloody multiple murder. Early on, Tourneur has Vendice say, "To be honest is not to be i' the world." It establishes the odor of a play that contains the stench of sin and a lung-blackening smog of corruption. Robert Brustein, who directs an able cast with a firm, brisk hand, doubtless sees The Revenger's Tragedy as a cautionary parable for a later age steeped in blood and death and degraded values...
Affluence has its price, of course. "The odor is terrible," complains Mrs. Jean Puckett, who has wells and burn-offs to either side of her one-acre lot. "It's just like leaving on a gas stove without lighting it." Lon Whaley, who has two of the natural gas burn-offs lighting up his front yard like the county fairgrounds, has difficulty getting to sleep at night. And Noah Blevins worries about the landscape: "It 'bout made me sick to see them drillin' and tearin' up what I spent all my life buildin...
According to Petri, the odor is most noticeable on wet, rainy days, and is especially bad on the top floors, where the heat rises. Smoke from cigarettes is not a factor in the smell, he said, but bare feet are a possible cause...