Word: smells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...throng of young men in black and red war paint charged drunkenly through the explosions and drifting smoke. But for all the smell of gunpowder and the rockets' red glare, Vientiane was not being stormed by the Communist Pathet...
...came back again. Or just looked in wistfully as we hurried to other places. Inside the high walls we found a kaleidoscope of color and language. Voices and faces. Magic reflected in a balloon. Thin and flaky countries. Rich and buttery countries. Somewhere mixed in with the fire-smell of sausages, the Armenian girl's long veil, the proud colors of an African cloth--somewhere there is what we really are. Taste something strange and sweet and wonder. Or smile from the warmth of an inherited identity. And still wonder...
...them allows a loathsome young man to be purged of childhood guilt by visiting the apartment of one of his former high school teachers, who was also the antiquated mistress of the young man's best friend. Without opening the door, the hero realizes from the smell seeping out of the apartment that the teacher is dead. He leaves, purged...
...game. This does mean that they exist only as agents Moravia's or Ayme's ideas about boredom or love, for both writers have too much talent to use them so . But the treatment they do seriously limits their range and and richly and delicately scented often are, they smell flatly of the thesis...
...Donner, putting his lifetime into a sentence, ''and that His presence and angels go with me. gives me grace to do what I'm called on to do, and peace of mind while I'm doing it.'' The book bears a sweet, refreshing smell of hay. and - considering the risk involved - surprisingly little corn. The hero, at least, has a golden heart, not a golden arm. The book is a faithful portrait of a man in awe of heaven who finally goes there, leaving an estate worth...