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...Stain of Blood. Almost everything else he said was denunciatory...
When 50-year-old Ed Queeny goes off on hunting trips in his DC-3, he likes to point out Monsanto's contributions to his plane: fire-retarding control surfaces, stain-proof upholstery, the plastic-covered table and plastic dishes in the galley. Among Monsanto's more arresting new inventions: Resloom, a chemical that promises to make rayon creaseless, cotton wrinkleless, and keep wool from shrinking...
...smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind...
...Poet Spender discovered any such talent, he makes no mention of it. European Witness is in the main a routine travelogue. It has flashes of fancy poesy ("poignant deep-green fields through which homesickness seems to bleed with a dark stain of greenish blood"), and a full share of the pedestrian details that pad out most travel books ("During the [week] days I went for three walks . . . once to the Cloisters of the Nikolaskirche, once to the Poppelsdorfer Schloss and once to the Beethovenhaus, which was closed"). It also has passages in which Poet Spender writes like a naive...
...Foulest of words . . . ancient and hackneyed gossip ... phantasmagoria of phrases . . . delirium of an impudent person . mercenary from head to heels . . . this savage . . . bandit . . depraved souls . . . product of the Stock Exchange and black market . . . scum. . . . How can you influence him? Such persons are not even beaten, so as not to stain one's hands...