Word: scenting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong scent of fresh hope emerging from the article on Psychologist Morton Bard's love affair with New York's 30th Police Precinct Family Crisis Intervention Unit [March 23] brought tears to eyes that, accustomed to mirages, overreacted when a real oasis appeared...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...that scent of hunting male