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Wakened at midnight by the smell of smoke, Mary Clark Rockefeller found the stairwell of the century-old Albany Executive Mansion engulfed in flames, pounded on the door of Governor Nelson Rockefeller's adjoining bedroom, and together they crawled through the second-floor window onto a porch roof. Just as Rocky got set to leap for a clump of bushes 15 feet below, the fire department arrived, shot up a rescue ladder. After ascertaining that his wife and three servants were safe ("A miracle," beamed New York's First Lady), the Governor ducked back into his bedroom...
...Peking, winter, 1961. In frosty cold, endless queues line up in front of the few carts of vegetable peddlers. One item only is on sale: cabbage. For me even now its smell evokes Peking...
...able to smell a bargain-and a masterpiece-a continent away, and the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr said of him: "I have never mentioned a new artist that Thompson didn't know about." He might barge into a gallery, start haggling over prices without so much as a word of greeting. He could be lavishly generous with friends, cab drivers and bellboys, but with dealers he was tough. He bought up Cezannes, Braques, Matisses, Legers, a splendid Picasso series, more than 70 Giacometti sculptures. He gathered one of the biggest collections of Paul Klees...
Years later, on the way to Troy, the archer accidentally scratched his foot with one of the poisoned arrows and was cast into exile by his companions, who found the smell of the wound un bearable. When the Greeks learned that only Hercules' arrow could win the war. they persuaded Philoctetes to rejoin the battle, and he promptly slew Trojan Enemy Paris. See SCIENCE, Philoctetes Was Here...
...then ends badly. Other things in the play seem insufficient and even flat: scenes lack outward drama without displaying any of Agee's inner force. But, with good performances by Colleen Dewhurst, Arthur Hill, Aline MacMahon and John Megna (as the small son), the people, most of them, smell of life and their behavior smacks of truth. Miles apart as in many ways they are, Agee, like Chekhov, really substituted feeling for drama, like Chekhov tinged sadness with humor, and showed a compassion that though it might not acquit errant beings, would always pardon them. It is for such...