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...that won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1947, Lowell's books were devoted to a ceaseless self-scrutiny. The glimpses of his private world could be harrowing. "I hear/ my ill-spirit sob in each blood cell,/ as if my hand were at its throat," he confessed in Skunk Hour, a famous testament to his dark inner life. It was an outwardly tempestuous life as well. He was a Roman Catholic convert in his 20s-he later renounced the church -and a conscientious objector who served five months in prison for draft resistance during World...
...overdrafts to Lance and his family, ordered the bank to upgrade its loose lending practices, even questioned Lance's bank salary (his pay has not been revealed). More generally, Bloom told the committee he had not been more critical of Lance because "no one likes to be a skunk at a garden party...
...fine shape. The company's total order backlog, largely military, has risen to $4.6 billion, up $1 billion in twelve months. Defense business is consistently profitable; it ranges from cargo aircraft to missiles and electronics-to say nothing of secret projects undertaken at Lockheed's "skunk works," which turned out, among other things, the U2. Negotiations are under way between the Japanese de fense agency and the U.S. Department of Defense for the sale of 44 Orion antisubmarine aircraft, a deal that would bring Lockheed more than $1 billion over the next decade...
...sudden warming could have particularly adverse effects on witch hazels, weeping willows, and skunk cabbages, causing their roots to shrivel and all their leaves to fall off by early August, Reed C. Rollins, director of the Gray Herbarium, said yesterday...
Butz started by telling a dirty joke involving intercourse between a dog and a skunk. When the conversation turned to politics, Boone, a right-wing Republican, asked Butz why the party of Lincoln was not able to attract more blacks. The Secretary responded with a line so obscene and insulting to blacks that it forced him out of the Cabinet last week and jolted the whole Ford campaign. Butz said that "the only thing the coloreds are looking...