Word: offal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Chopping. 291 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $4.95. On the jacket of this book squats a huge hairy fly-no doubt attracted by the offal inside. There is Mrs. Macklin, a black widow in sweaty corsets, who works days as caretaker of a dreary British office and prowls the night looking for someone to take care of her; Mr. Gender, an amorous Prufrock with boils; Miss Jeacock, a withered office virgin who lures a young clerk to the ladies' room and ecstatically dies of a surfeit. The clerk flees the jakes in horror but is blackmailed by Mrs. Macklin...
...fill in the bay and create industrial sites, the government dumps more than 1,000 tons of garbage there every day. Since typhoons carried away parts of the barrier that was supposed to contain the offal, it drifts out and forms a putrescent bilge that swills around the city. For a long time, not even her best friends would tell her. Then last week Senior City Councilor Arnaldo de Oliveira Sales took an olfactory tour of Hong Kong in a helicopter and pronounced that even from 300 feet up the place stank. The government promised that Gin Drinkers...
After two trial runs last fall and this summer, The New York Review of Books has begun to publish bi-weekly: it is one of the most fantastic mixtures of genius and literary offal to descend on the book world in a decade. The genius of the Review is partly its conception--it could grow to fill the void The New Republic left in the 1930's when it slipped from its role of providing focus and direction in exploring liberal ideas. Since that time, American thinkers have had no publication literary or political which could serve as a forum...
Perfumes & Canapes. Dr. Beckhorn looks at the enzyme future with what amounts to biochemical ecstasy. There is no good reason, he says, why enzymes cannot be found to dispose of any kind of organic offal, from deposits in household cesspools to the industrial discharges that turn rivers into sewers. They can make nutritious and palatable cattle feed out of fish offal or cannery wastes. Some time in the future they will probably move into the great petrochemical business, replacing the clumsy high-temperature processes that are used now. Petroleum is organic, says Beckhorn, and a natural prey for enzymes...
...unwelcome intercessor in these parts, whose subtle liquid motions bring discomfiture and weight depressing on our hearts. O, to be witness and delighted benefactor of efficient snow removal would elicit nightingale-like our most heartiest approval. Banish then the ibis of the wood, return the hush; banish then the offal of the slopping through the slush...