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...Deep Blue Sea (by Terence Rattigan) has seldom given off a fishier smell. Rattigan has tackled a grim moment in a woman's life, and has striven manfully to make a big afternoon of it for large audiences of other, less unfortunate women. Margaret Sullavan has returned to Broadway to play the bedeviled lady who twice turns on the gas, but who has no better luck at dying than (until the last few minutes) at making a go of life...
...result is a wonderful piece of Americana, full of the smell of beer and coal smoke-and of the potato soup on which Ma fed her brood, sometimes for weeks on end, when Pa was looking for a job or "fighting the interests" during one of the dozens of strikes in which he was privileged to take part. Pa was a formidable and handsome man-tall, erect, curly-haired and with a straight right capable of breaking a man's jaw. Ma was handsome and formidable too-once she hit a slum bully over the head with a ball...
Cold and new, Holmes Hall sits slightly bewildered in the unlovely corner of the Radcliffe quad. The workmen have just left Holmes. They left last Friday. They left behind them the unhealthy smell of newly dried paint and a cleanliness which is awesome...
Stalinism. By the 18th Congress Stalin was cooking with gas, and the smell of blood pudding was all through the kitchen. Everyone in Russia had had a bellyful. A new slogan was shouted: "Stalin is the Lenin of Today...
...been so close to the details I've paid no attention to the clothing of the day. First we find a buried star and now we go to dig up a mint-new human." And later on he says "The sweetness of your offer is a good smell on the west wind...