Word: smells
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...them. There is something sinister about the little iron boxes with their guts of printed circuitry they conjure up visions of guard towers and concentration cartps, armed guards frisking students in the corridors. All you have to do is put your fingers in the slots and you smell the jail house...
...Harvard context and automatically think of thumb-screws and firing squads, but the connotations of the machine are no less real for being illogical, identimats in the food lines make Harvard that much more faceless and mechanical, and worse: No amount of ratiocination can cover up the first could smell of the thing when you put your hand...
...smell of pine cut into my sleep in the late afternoon and I could hear the truck whining against a steep incline. I pushed open the back gate and the Sierra Nevada, red in the setting sun, passed by like a slow-moving train. The forest was hypnotic, nothing moved out there in the dark green silence. Darkness came in from the east, and falling back to sleep, I wondered what it was like in the Far East to have the morning sun come up over the Pacific, to have the mountains cast their shadow over the west...
...Henry Kissinger once describe former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban as "a man who cannot get into an elevator without holding a press conference"? Does the U.S. Secretary of State dislike conferences with Japanese because "they smell of fish"? Does it offend him that Syrian President Hafez Assad picks his nose during negotiations and that, when all is finally agreed upon, he "cannot be depended upon and is totally irresponsible"? Is it Kissinger's estimate of Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger that "you cannot talk to that man"? Is it true that Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev dutifully spouted...
...into Europe's banking system. A Scottish paleontologist named MacGregor tries to help, and his investigation takes him to Paris at the time of the 1968 student rebellion. Textures are well observed: the roughness of Kurdish mountain men, the slithery politesse of European moneymen. There is a convincing smell of burnt insulation; it is clear that neither the French students' revolt nor that of the Kurds ever had the slightest chance of success...