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...WARM WEATHER and musky smell of subway construction from the Square has a profound effect on the youthful hormone system, and this creates problems for the proctors as well as the Harolds of summer school. Naturally you have a professional duty to restrain from philandering with the guests, but when opportunity knocks at 3 a.m., wondering if you have a match when you've said repeatedly that you can't stand smokers--well, you do the best...
...crescent, the symbol of a hospital, is raised. Binoculars to his eyes, a brigadier looks out toward the horizon, where he hears bursts of artillery. His or theirs? "Ours," he replies, pointing in the direction of the enemy lines. "They are getting ready to attack again. You can smell battle...
Neither did the children. They have been relocated near the women. Heads shaved, they seem of one sex or of none. Some are naked. They are penned in a small dark space; they smell of urine; their thighs are stained with excrement. They seem to moan continually. One boy shivers, another laughs. A legless girl spoons mush into the mouth of a younger one. A woman lurches forward and shouts in English: "I am normal...
...awkwardly Marxist closing line: "To each his need, from each his power." Rauch leaves in those speeches pointing to the concerns more relevant to his summer audience: "Take sex, for instance... Sometimes it's funny and sometimes it's said, but it's always hanging about like a smell of drains...
...blasting P.L.O. and Syrian positions in West Beirut, the Israelis also struck nearby civilian buildings, including the Soviet embassy grounds, hotels, private residences and even a sanitarium. Rescue workers dug with their hands in the rubble for victims as the wail of ambulances sounded throughout West Beirut. The acrid smell of cordite filled the air. Splintered glass and chunks of concrete littered streets lined with tottering, half-collapsed buildings...