Word: odors
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...lyric and pastoral verse, in addition to the intensely personal expressions of Weltschmerz and separation that are still much favored by young poets. But unlike much of the so-called academic poetry, these poems rarely intimidate with pretentiousness or with allusions to obscure mythologies. Missing, too, is the musty odor of coterie and connoisseurship...
...money for tomorrow; the smell of wood smoke that hangs over Southern shantytowns?romantic to the suburbanite, but symptomatic of scant heat and pinchgut rations to the poor; the bags of flour delivered by a well-meaning welfare agency, in a household that has no oven; the pervasive odor of human urine and rat droppings in perennially damp walk-ups; the bite of wind or snow through a wall of rotten bricks and no hope that the landlord will repair the crack. Poverty is the certainty of being gouged?particularly by one's own kind. For if the poor share...
...Black with wrath, Endecott orders Merry Mount burned to the ground and the Indians massacred. The historical moment is a century and a half before the American Revolution, but as the first shots are fired, and puffs of acrid smoke drift across the stage, the playgoer sniffs the unmistakable odor of revolt...
...uneven then, but Nixon badly wanted the backing of liberal Republicans. Rockefeller refused to consider the vice-presidential nomination, harpooned the outgoing Eisenhower Administration-and by implication, Nixon-and, as the price of support, exacted from Nixon the famed 14-point Fifth Avenue compact that put Nixon in bad odor with the Republican right wing...
...from the bubbles in soft drinks and the soda in Scotch and soda. But the body is also a versatile gas factory. By fermentation and similar processes, it can manufacture an excess of carbon dioxide, as well as hydrogen, methane (all odorless) and hydrogen sulfide (which has an unpleasant odor). At times, excessive production of such gases can be painfully serious...