Word: smelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Exuberance. In reaction to the gentle, polite, French-doors-and-tennis-rackets comedy that has long been the West End's mirror of English life, Joan Littlewood likes to fill her theater with the smell of cold porridge and soft coal. her stage with people of small means and great imagination. She likes her characters to rub hips with spivs, tarts, pansies and drunks, in whose vernacular a whore is a brass and a pimp is a ponce (one song in Fings Ain't What They Used to Be is called The Student Ponce). But while a Tennessee...
...side. He was first violin with the Vancouver Symphony in 1945 when Bernstein made a guest appearance with the orchestra, advised him to make conducting his career. How did Bernstein know he was any good? Said Lenny as he returned to his orchestra last week: "You can smell a conductor...
Insect chemical detectors (sense of smell) are amazingly good too. Among the best are those of male moths that can smell a female of their own species a long distance away, apparently detecting a single molecule of a specific chemical. Human chemists cannot do this, even with the most subtle laboratory apparatus...
...head and man to buckle his belt; to get ready to rule... The story is full of sun and bright colors and the narrator's simple diction makes the abundant sense-imagery all the more vivid: So I go down into that gully to make water, with the smell of cinnamon in the air and red flowers blooming and bursting before my eye. Lowe's fantastic prose is a pleasure to read; and all in all, New Day is certainly the most enjoyable piece the Advocate has printed in a long time...
...Seminary, warned against closing the door entirely to joint praying: "May we not, by too facile and too simple a ruling concerning joint prayer, become guilty of crushing the bruised reed and quenching the smoldering wick, by making the names 'Confessional' and 'Orthodox' names which smell of lovelessness...