Word: scenting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the prevailing scent of Republican disaster, Gerald Ford continued doggedly to pursue a wearying campaign schedule that will have taken him to 15 states by Election Day. Along the way, his speeches have become increasingly partisan, while his crowds have remained sparse and unenthusiastic. Even some Republican candidates have avoided appearing with him, believing that association could cost them votes. But according to aides, Ford believes that he may be giving some help to at least a few candidates. More important, explains one adviser: "He doesn't want people saying he didn't give his last ounce...
...reason is that natural attraction, the mysterious magnetism books exude for all bibliophiles. The scent of all of those mountains of meticulously-piled Samuelson economics texts and Norton English anthologies, analytic studies of the French Revolution and the New Deal, thick tomes of Mann and Dostoevsky, wafts out into the Square and the Yard, drawing to it all possessors of a sensitive nose. I, for one, fondle books almost as tenderly as I do women, and in these hours I wander up and down the Coop's aisles, my fingers get a good workout. The silkiness of untouched pages...
lavishing, in leaking roses, borders of bachelor's buttons, blue at the buttonhole, and the scent of solitary sentry lilies: sentences burgeoning like blood from a slit artery...
...national tennis finalist in 1965, as a "playboy," not sérieux enough to be President. Married three times, in a Catholic country where divorce is still a political handicap, he has become saddled with the nicknames "Beau Jacques"and "Charmant Delmas." Moreover, he still has a slight scent of scandal about him. He was dismissed by Pompidou in 1972 partly because it was found he had used loopholes to avoid paying taxes...
...Cultural Historian William Irwin Thompson is off again, hot on the scent of the future. Readers of his At the Edge of History (1971) know what to expect: a wizardry with words, continuous trips to the well of personal experience (Irish-Californian-Catholic), unlikely linkages of ideas, polarizations (technology v. mysticism) - all united by the play of an original, restless, tendentious Intelligence...