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...theme: the enormous human need to feel valuable in a dangerous, complex world, where men are numbed or manipulated by remote control for what may or may not be their own good. As embodied in the aggressively bathless Carl Lundquist, the theme lingers like Whitman's line, "the scent of these armpits is aroma finer than prayer." The sentiment is a noble one, but like Poor Devils itself, not likely to be taken too seriously in a society that seeks salvation by spraying together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Name of the Game | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

...better and we can look forward to four albums where we used to get only one. Or maybe we're just in for a prolonged period of retrenchment on their part, at the end of which they will find themselves in a recording studio sniffing deliriously at the scent of something new again...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: The Rock-Freak A Few Rushes | 2/21/1970 | See Source »

...personal answer. What Bellow continues to do with splendid energy in his new book, Mr. Sammler's Planet, is nothing less than clear a place in the rubble where a man can stand. An affirmation? The cant word embarrasses. It suggests fetid molecules of doubt coated with pine scent. But yes, Bellow affirms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Saul Bellow: Seer with a Civil Heart | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

...that scent of hunting male

Author: By W. Campbell, | Title: No Headline | 1/21/1970 | See Source »

Efforts to find a practical way to add odors to advertisements have been going on for years. Scented ink was tried in newspapers in the '50s, but the fragrance dissipated too rapidly. The present process is supplied by only two companies, National Cash Register and Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing, and the competition between them has spread from the marketplace to the courts. NCR, which claims that it developed the micro method first, has filed a patent-infringement suit against 3M. Minnesota Mining extracts a product's aromatic oils to duplicate the product's scent. The essences are enclosed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Selling the Smell | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

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